Lyrics to
Living In The Real World

This version of Living In The Real World was released by Blondie in 1979.

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Every day you’ve go to wake up
Disappear behind your makeup
Take away your calendar watch
And you can’t keep track until your heart attack

Hey, I’m living in a magazine, page to page in my submarine
Hey now, Cindy, you can’t get to me
Need an elevator? Hey, I’ll see you later

Cause I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
No more, no more, yeah

I can be whatever I want to
I talk to me, I even agree
Every day’s a holiday
You can look through the glass and take a photograph

You will never ever walk on the moon, leave your body and float through the room
You could never conquer me
Cause I’m not here and you’re not there, yeah

And I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
No more, no more, yeah
Didn’t I ever tell you I was gone?
Didn’t I ever tell you I was gone? Bye bye

I can do anything at all
I’m invisible and I’m twenty feet tall
Pull the plug on your digital clock
And it all goes dark and the bodies stop

Hey, I’m living in a magazine, page to page in my teenage dream
Hey, now, Mary, you can’t follow me
Without a satellite – I’m on a power flight

Cause I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
No more, no more
I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
I’m not living in the real world
No more, no more, no more
No more, no more, no more
No more, no more, no more

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About Lyrics and Living In The Real World by Blondie

The lyrics for Living In The Real World are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Blondie. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Living In The Real World 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 Living In The Real World - Blondie 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 Living In The Real World by Blondie 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 Living In The Real World" means the words set to the music of Living In The Real World, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blondie. 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 Living In The Real World and the lyrics to Living In The Real World are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blondie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Living In The Real World, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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