Lyrics to
Listen To The Music

This version of Listen To The Music was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972.

Our About The Doobie Brothers page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Listen To The Music from 1972 as well as all of the other lyrics from The Doobie Brothers that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to The Doobie Brothers or about the 1970s in general.

Don’t you feel it growin’, day by day
People gettin’ ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make ’em smile
It ain’t so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh, now mama’s go’n’ to after ‘while
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

Well I know, you know better
Everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We’ll be happy
And we’ll dance
Oh, we’re gonna dance our blues away
And if I’m feelin’ good to you
And you’re feelin’ good to me
There ain’t nothin’ we can’t do or say
Feelin’ good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List’nin’ for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

---

Want more lyrics and songs by The Doobie Brothers?

The Doobie Brothers has released many songs over the years besides Listen To The Music. The Doobie Brothers released songs from 1971 to 2000 spanning across albums like The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street, The Captain And Me, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, Stampede, Takin' It To The Streets, Livin' On The Fault Line, Minute By Minute, One Step Closer, Cycles, Brotherhood, and Sibling Rivalry. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Doobie Brothers.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1972 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Listen To The Music by The Doobie Brothers

The lyrics for Listen To The Music are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by The Doobie Brothers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Listen To The Music have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Listen To The Music - The Doobie Brothers and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Listen To The Music by The Doobie Brothers in multiple ways. 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 Listen To The Music" means the words set to the music of Listen To The Music, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doobie Brothers. 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 Listen To The Music and the lyrics to Listen To The Music are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doobie Brothers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Listen To The Music, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by The Doobie Brothers

Visit our The Doobie Brothers profile for more The Doobie Brothers songs, lyrics & info!

)