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Love Is The Thing You Need

This version of Love Is The Thing You Need was released by Jackson 5 in 1976.

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(Love is the thing you need)

Ooh, I know a fortune teller
A very freaky fella
How ’bout you like me to tell ya
(Love is the thing you need) Let me say now

A family physician
Gave me a prescription
For a nice disposition
(Love is the thing you need)

So, when all your frustrations
Don’t receive no medication
How bad you feel
Oh, it’s just unreal
Oh, you can’t get no satisfaction
When your mind is overacting
And you don’t give your self the love you need

(So get on up)
And get down, down, down
With some good ol’ funky, funky love
(Love is the thing you need) Fellas
(Love is the thing you need) Ah, hit it,

Make you feel so good
Make your body shake like crazy
Give yourself a get and go, yeah
(Love is the thing you need) The midnight hour

(Love is the thing you need) (Love is the thing you need)
(Love is the thing you need) Sing it again
(Love is the thing you need) (Love is the thing you need)
When that somebody finds you down (Love is the thing you need)
Love comes up from underground (Love is the thing you need)

Oh, love (Oh, love)
Yeah, some people they don’t know
That it’s the only way to go
If you wanna live a happy, happy life yeah, yeah

Oh, there ain’t no doubt about it
We just can’t live without it
No we can’t, no we can’t
Sing it to me children

(Love is the thing you need) One more time, yeah
(Love is the thing you need) Sing it, yeah,
Once a day, twice a day, everyday
(Love is the thing you need) What you say now
Once a day, twice a day, good God, everyday
(Love is the thing you need) You gotta, gotta have love
You gotta, gotta have love
You gotta, gotta have love
Y’all know what I’m talkin’ about (Love is the thing you need)
You gotta, gotta have love
You gotta, gotta have love
You gotta, gotta have love (Love is the thing you need)
Don’t you stop, don’t you stop

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You can understand the lyrics to Love Is The Thing You Need 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 Love Is The Thing You Need" means the words set to the music of Love Is The Thing You Need, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Love Is The Thing You Need and the lyrics to Love Is The Thing You Need are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Love Is The Thing You Need, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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