Lyrics to
Nine To Five

This version of Nine To Five was released by The Kinks in 1975.

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The Star is in Norman’s office. His day
Of sweat and toil has begun.

Nine To Five

Answering phones and dictating letters
Making decisions that affect no one.
Stuck in the office from nine until five
Life is so incredibly dull,
Working from nine to five.

Oh nine to five, nine to five,
Working from nine to five.

And time goes by
The hours tick away.
First seconds,
Then minutes,
Then hours into days.
Each day,
Each week,
Seems just like any other.
All work,
No play,
It’s just another day.

He’s caught in a mass of computerised trivia,
Deciphering data for mechanical minds.
He’s lost in the paperwork and up to his eyes,
He’s checking a list that’s been checked out before
And he’s starting to lose his mind.

Oh nine to five, nine to five,
Working from nine to five.
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About Lyrics and Nine To Five by The Kinks

When you decide to study the lyrics to Nine To Five, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by The Kinks. Some of the lyrics to Nine To Five have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Kinks and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Nine To Five 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 Nine To Five" means the words set to the music of Nine To Five, 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 Nine To Five and the lyrics to Nine To Five 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 Nine To Five, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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