Lyrics to
No Time To Lose

This version of No Time To Lose was released by Rainbow in 1979.

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The other family get no sleep
Somewhere down the love got to take and keep
Think about the future, nothing in the past
God, things never last

Come on, come on, come on
Take your love
Get down, get down, get down
Down the road

It ain’t no lie
You’re hurting
And you don’t know why
No time to lose
We get no time to lose
No time to lose
No time to lose

Ever had the feeling something’s going wrong
Hanging round a lover where you don’t belong
Waiting for a reason, lookin’ for a clue
But you know what you gotta do

Come on, come on, come on
Take your love
Get down, get down, get down
Down the road

It ain’t no lie
You’re hurting
And you don’t know why
You got no time to lose
We get no time to lose
No time to lose
No time to lose

Your brothers at the bar
There girls in the car
Your sister’s on the telephone
that ain’t low
Your mother’s going blue
Your dad is going grey
There’s nothing here for you to stay

Come on, come on, come on
Take your love
Get down, get down, get down
Get down that road, get down you

It ain’t no lie
You’re hurting
And you don’t know why
No time to lose
No time to lose
You gonna have to choose
You go and shake the blues
Oh oh you got no time to lose
You got to choose
No time to lose

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About Lyrics and No Time To Lose by Rainbow

The lyrics for No Time To Lose are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Rainbow. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to No Time To Lose 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 No Time To Lose - Rainbow 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 No Time To Lose by Rainbow 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 No Time To Lose" means the words set to the music of No Time To Lose, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rainbow. 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 No Time To Lose and the lyrics to No Time To Lose are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rainbow who came here looking just for the lyrics to No Time To Lose, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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