Lyrics to
Overkill

This version of Overkill was released by Motorhead in 1979.

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Only way to feel the noise is when it’s good and loud,
So good you can’t believe it’s screaming with the crowd,
Don’t sweat it, get it back to you,
Overkill, Overkill

On your feet you feel the beat, it goes straight to your spine,
Shake your head you must be dead if it don’t make you fly,
Don’t sweat it, get it back to you,
Overkill, Overkill

Know your body’s made to move, feel it in your guts
Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t worth the name if it don’t make you strut,
Don’t sweat it, get it back to you,
Overkill, Overkill

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Motorhead has released many songs over the years besides Overkill. Motorhead released songs from 1977 to 2004 spanning across albums like Motorhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades, Iron Fist, Another Perfect Day, No Remorse, Orgasmatron, Rock 'n' Roll, 1916, March Or Die, Bastards, Sacrifice, Overnight Sensation, Snake Bite Love, We Are Motorhead, Hammered, and Inferno. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Motorhead.

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The lyrics to Overkill are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Motorhead in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Overkill are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Motorhead and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Overkill back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Overkill by Motorhead in a number of 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 Overkill" means the words set to the music of Overkill, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Motorhead. 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 Overkill and the lyrics to Overkill are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Motorhead who came here looking just for the lyrics to Overkill, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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