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Look A Little On The Sunny Side

This version of Look A Little On The Sunny Side was released by The Kinks in 1972.

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Look a little on the sunny side
Even when they say you’re on the slide,
And for a while they’ll say your records never make it,
But in a while they’re gonna be showering you with praises.
They’ll give you mediocre reviews
And put you in the underground for a while,
But look a little on the funny, sunny side of life,
Look a little on the sunny side.

You sing ’em the blues
And then they ask for a happy tune,
And when you start to smile they’ll say gimme dat rhythm and blues,
And when you give ’em dat rhythm and blues they’ll simply smile and say
We didn’t want to hear you play,
We didn’t like you any way.
It’s very hard to please the people every single time,
But look a little on the sunny side.

Look a little on the sunny side
Even when you feel you want to hide,
You gotta laugh, don’t let your critics ever upset you,
‘Cos for a while the cynics will all be out to get you.
You gotta be shrewd, you gotta be strong
You’ve gotta convince yourself that you are not wrong,
Whistle a tune and think of a catchy, happy, little song
And look a little on the sunny side.

It’s very hard to please the people every single time,
But look a little on the sunny side.

They’re gonna put you down for a while
You’ve got to learn to grit your teeth and smile
And look a little on the funny, sunny side of life,
Look a little on the sunny side.

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The lyrics for Look A Little On The Sunny Side are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by The Kinks. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Look A Little On The Sunny Side 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 Look A Little On The Sunny Side - The Kinks 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 Look A Little On The Sunny Side by The Kinks 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 Look A Little On The Sunny Side" means the words set to the music of Look A Little On The Sunny Side, 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 Look A Little On The Sunny Side and the lyrics to Look A Little On The Sunny Side 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 Look A Little On The Sunny Side, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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