Lyrics to
Portable Radio

This version of Portable Radio was released by Hall & Oates in 1979.

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Take your pick of the modulation
Like a kid in a candy store
It’s a hand-carry situation
Made for lying on the beach
Or dancin in the streets
You got your pertinent information
Or you can tune in to hear the scores
There’s a power in a million stations
You can’t ignore

Radio
crank up the power
Radio
rock it for hours and hours
Radio
play it soft and low
Viva la Portable Radio
turn up the power all night

Well I don’t wanna hear no static
And I don’t wanna hear no jaw
Put them platters on automatic
I cannot get enough
Got to give me more and more
Play some soul for the congregation
Rock n’ roll for the kids next door
Charge up your batteries across the nation
Viva la Portable Radio
It’s x-static

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About Lyrics and Portable Radio by Hall & Oates

The lyrics for Portable Radio are defined as the words making up the song released by Hall & Oates in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Portable Radio have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Hall & Oates and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Portable Radio by Hall & Oates if you think through it. 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 Portable Radio" means the words set to the music of Portable Radio, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 Portable Radio and the lyrics to Portable Radio are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Portable Radio, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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