Lyrics to
Lust For Kicks

This version of Lust For Kicks was released by The Cars in 1979.

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he’s got his plastic sneakers
she’s got her robuck purse
he’s got his butane flicker
she’s got it worse
they’re crazy about each other
like a misplaced fix
they’re mad about each other
they blame it all on the lust for kicks
he’s got his own dumb waiter
she’s reading one fell swoop
he gets around to it later
she fills the scoop
he’s just a hit parader
she’s just a cycle ride
he likes to masquerade her
and she tells him lies

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About Lyrics and Lust For Kicks by The Cars

The lyrics to Lust For Kicks are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Cars used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Lust For Kicks have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Cars 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 Lust For Kicks by The Cars. 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 Lust For Kicks" means the words set to the music of Lust For Kicks, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cars. 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 Lust For Kicks and the lyrics to Lust For Kicks are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cars who came here looking just for the lyrics to Lust For Kicks, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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