Lyrics to
Little Sister

This version of Little Sister was released by The Runaways in 1977.

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Little Sister on your rollerskates
It’s Friday nite an’ you got a date
Right in front of the Watergate.
But now he’s gone ’cause you’re too late

It’s too late to be a kid in love
It’s too late to be a kid in love
We’re the kids in hate

Little sister you’re sure lookin’ great
You hope someday you’ll be playmate
Well why did you wait
Your chance is gone an’ now you’re too late

It’s too late to be a kid in love
It’s too late to be a kid in love
We’re the kids in hate

Little sister don’t you be so straight
Let your old folks call ya jailbait
This mean world it belongs to us
It can be yours so don’t hesitate(c’mon)

It’s too late to be a kid in love
It’s too late to be a kid in love
We’re the kids in hate

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About Lyrics and Little Sister by The Runaways

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Sister, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Runaways. Some of the lyrics to Little Sister have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Runaways and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Little Sister 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 Little Sister" means the words set to the music of Little Sister, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Runaways. 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 Little Sister and the lyrics to Little Sister are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Runaways who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Sister, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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