Lyrics to
Messin’

This version of Messin’ was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973.

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Right now the world ain’t looking too hot
Unless you’re dead you must know what I mean
There’s a …
They say they’ve got an answer but I think it’s all a dream

Well it’s easy to forget about it, just get high
Live up in your castle in the sky
But you still breathe in the same air as me
Eating, drinking, poisoning where it should be

We’re messin’ up the land
We’re messin’ up the sea
We’re messin’ up the air
Messin’ up on you and me

Things are worse than going wrong
Here we still go rushing proudly on
Take a look around, like around you everywhere
This must be the age, the age of I don’t care

Right now the world ain’t looking too hot
Unless you’re dead you must know what I mean
You can read it in the papers, hear it on the news
The earth is going down, going down in pollution blues

We’re messin’ up the land
We’re messin’ up the sea
We’re messin’ up the air
Messin’ up on you and me

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Messin’. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Messin’ by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Messin’ are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Messin’ have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Messin’ by Manfred Mann's Earth Band if you think through it. 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 Messin’" means the words set to the music of Messin’, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Messin’ and the lyrics to Messin’ are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Messin’, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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