Lyrics to
Need Some Love

This version of Need Some Love was released by Rush in 1974.

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I’m runnin’ here, I’m runnin’ there
I’m lookin’ for a girl
‘Cause there’s nothin’ I need, there’s nothin’ I want more
In the whole wide world

Well, I need it quick and I need it now
Before I start to fade away
That’s why I’m searchin’, that’s why I’m lookin’
Each and ev’ry day

Ooh, I need some love
I said I need some love
Ooh yes, I need some love
This feelin’ I can’t rise above
Ooh, yeah, yeah

Well, I been hustlin’ here, I been hustlin’ there
I been searchin’ for about a week
And I started feelin’ this strange sensation
My knees are startin’ gettin’ weak

Well, I need what keeps a young man alive
I’m sayin’ I need it now
I’m gonna get the message across to you
Some way, some how

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Rush has released many songs over the years besides Need Some Love. Rush released songs from 1974 to 2007 spanning across albums like Rush, Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, 2112, A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, Presto, Roll The Bones, Counterparts, Test For Echo, Vapor Trails, Feedback, and Snakes & Arrows. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Rush.

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About Lyrics and Need Some Love by Rush

The lyrics for Need Some Love are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Rush. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Need Some Love 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 Need Some Love - Rush 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 Need Some Love by Rush 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 Need Some Love" means the words set to the music of Need Some Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rush. 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 Need Some Love and the lyrics to Need Some Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rush who came here looking just for the lyrics to Need Some Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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