Lyrics to
Live Life

This version of Live Life was released by The Kinks in 1978.

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Have you heard about trouble throughout the land
With the fascists and the left wing militants
Out of work executives are killing themselves
And the I.R.A. are killing everybody else
Don’t panic, don’t lose control
Keep your head, keep a hold
Act normal, there’s nothing wrong
Stay cool, just carry on

You gotta live life and be yourself
You can’t live life for anyone else
You gotta live life, that’s all you do
Nobody gonna live your life for you

Don’t get depressed when you read in the press
About world revolution and social unrest
Try not to panic when you switch on the news
And see the crooked politicians and the unemployment queues
It’s only life, it’s really fine
So don’t you believe all you read in the headlines
Live life, see it through
Carry on, it’s all you can do

You gotta live life for yourself
You can’t live for anyone else
You gotta live life, that’s all you do
Nobody gonna live your life for you

Trendy intellectuals always take action,
For every cause that’s ever been in fashion
Weekend revolutionaries protest and sing
Because they’re dedicated followers of any old thing
They got every solution for every revolution
They live in the slums just like the poor people do
But they’d rather sniff coke instead of glue
Right-wing fascists beat up the blacks
Then they salute the Union Jack
You can’t pretend there’s nothing wrong
It’s not the end, so just carry on

You gotta live life for yourself
You can’t live for anyone else
You gotta live life, that’s all you do
Nobody gonna live your life for you

Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother
Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother

You gotta live life for yourself
Can’t live life for anyone else
You gotta live life, that’s all you can do
Nobody gonna live your life for you

Live life, you gotta live life
You gotta live life, you gotta live life

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About Lyrics and Live Life by The Kinks

When you decide to study the lyrics to Live Life, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Kinks. Some of the lyrics to Live Life have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Kinks and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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