Lyrics to
Livin’ On The Fault Line

This version of Livin’ On The Fault Line was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1977.

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Underneath us all
There’s a world that we always forget ’til it moves us
Where the moon on the bay dances all alone
Ramone, he draw the razor swift, it slice the air
No more lovely dreams of those summer nights
Down in Santo Domingo
They laugh and play in the sleepy harbor town
So unaware of the danger that’s around
Livin’ on the fault line
Livin’ on the fault line
Livin’ on the fault line
Livin’ on the fault line

No one can run when it finally comes down
Nobody knows what is stirrin’ underground
Caruso stumbled
While the city tumbled down
The palace was in splinters
Theodore was leaving town

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About Lyrics and Livin’ On The Fault Line by The Doobie Brothers

The lyrics to Livin’ On The Fault Line are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Doobie Brothers used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Livin’ On The Fault Line have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Doobie Brothers and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Livin’ On The Fault Line by The Doobie Brothers. 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 Livin’ On The Fault Line" means the words set to the music of Livin’ On The Fault Line, 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 Livin’ On The Fault Line and the lyrics to Livin’ On The Fault Line 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 Livin’ On The Fault Line, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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