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Pass It Around

This version of Pass It Around was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1976.

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I wish I had a place to stay in L.A. for a week or so.
I feel like bein’ jive, hangin’ out, maybe go to Mexico.
‘Cause dreamin’, baby, that’s the way I wanna’ be.
Just wanna’ sit in a tree, sail out to sea, live like some fantasy, ahh baby.

‘Cause I’m tired of thinkin’, and too much drinkin’, all my troubles away.
Tired of goin’ to get layed at the lost and found.
Tired of dealin’ with love hurt feelings, and all I got to say,
In view of all that’s been goin’ down,
I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.

I wonder why I’m doin’, what I’ve been doin’ for a while.
Can’t say it’s the money, no, so maybe it’s the style.
‘Cause dreamin’, baby, that’s the way that I like it.
Just wanna’ get on a plane, go some place insane, throw myself one real good fit.

‘Cause I’m tired of thinkin’, and too much drinkin’, all my troubles away.
Tired of goin’ to get layed at the lost and found.
Tired of dealin’ with love hurt feelings, and all I got to say,
In view of all that’s been goin’ down,
I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.

I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.
Listen to me baby.
Pass it around.
I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.
I want to pass it around.
I want to get on out and pass it around.
I want to pass it around.

‘Cause I’m tired of thinkin’, and too much drinkin’, all my troubles away.
I want to pass it around.
Tired of goin’ to get layed at the lost and found.
I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.
Tired of dealin’ with love hurt feelings, and all I got to say,
I want to pass it around.
In view of all that’s been goin’ down,
I think I’ll go on out and pass it around.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Pass It Around, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Some of the lyrics to Pass It Around have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Grand Funk Railroad and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Pass It Around 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 Pass It Around" means the words set to the music of Pass It Around, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. 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 Pass It Around and the lyrics to Pass It Around are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to Pass It Around, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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