Lyrics to
Positive Vibration

This version of Positive Vibration was released by Bob Marley in 1976.

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Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That’s what we got to give!
(I’n’I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)

If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You’re saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)

Say you just can’t live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
‘Cause it’s news (new day) – news and days –
New time (new time), and if it’s a new feelin’ (new feelin’), yeah! –
Said it’s a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!

Pickin’ up?
Are you pickin’ up now?
Jah love – Jah love (protect us);
Jah love – Jah love (protect us);
Jah love – Jah love (protect us).

Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I’n’I vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!) Wo-oo-oh!
*Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)

Pickin’ up?
Are you pickin’ up now?
Pickin’ up?
Are you pickin’ up now?
Pickin’ up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin’ (protect us!) up now?
Pickin’ up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin’ (protect us!) up now?
Pickin’ up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin’ (protect us!) up now?
Pickin’ up?
Are you pickin’ up now?

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About Lyrics and Positive Vibration by Bob Marley

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

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

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