Lyrics to
Rock & Roll Island

This version of Rock & Roll Island was released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971.

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Can you make it to the island
rock and roll island in the middle of the time seas… back thru time in
firesign magnetics flow all around me… sonar laser quasar pulsar
bombarded with argon… open your hands and build a park clear your
mind and touch the dark we go down down down / back home
walkin in the park flashin in the dark no care for the narcs you know
we’re home free… and if you make it to the island rock and roll island
all you got to know is that you are the rules… do it in the sunshine it
really is magic you’ll never get this high if you try California rock and
roll thunder gonna bring you up from down under we go down down
down gonna / get back home
never get so high when you try I never been this high when I try I never
been so high but I try I never get this high when I try y’know when I try
can you feel us coming… and going and coming can you feel us singing
electric in your body…
can you make it to the island north winds rollin’ behind you can you make
it to the island
look around you tell me what you see see the people look at you look at
me we are alive and we see that what we are and what we will be will not
explode until the twenty ninth century
we have only begun to grow you know only begun to grow just begun to
grow and go you grow we are seedlings of the sun we go down down
down down down back home…

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The lyrics for Rock & Roll Island are defined as the words making up the song released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Rock & Roll Island have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Jefferson Airplane 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 Rock & Roll Island by Jefferson Airplane 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 Rock & Roll Island" means the words set to the music of Rock & Roll Island, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jefferson Airplane. 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 Rock & Roll Island and the lyrics to Rock & Roll Island are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jefferson Airplane who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rock & Roll Island, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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