Lyrics to
Light Up Or Leave Me Alone

This version of Light Up Or Leave Me Alone was released by Traffic in 1971.

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Sometimes I feel like I’m fading away
You’re looking at me, I’ve got nothing to say
Don’t make me angry with the games that you play
Either light up or leave me alone

You walk in my room, you lie in my bed
You open your mouth, shoot someone dead
All of a sudden you’re inside my head
Either light up or leave me alone

Spending my bread like it grew on a tree
You’re trying to tell me ’bout the birds and the bees
The skirt that you’re wearing is way past your knees
Either light up or leave me alone

You’re up all night preaching your mind
Come home in the morning with your latest find
I’m gonna have to lay it to you straight on the line
Either light up or leave me alone

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Traffic. Some of the lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Traffic and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" means the words set to the music of Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Traffic. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone and the lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Traffic who came here looking just for the lyrics to Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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