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Shouldn’t Have Took More Than You Gave

This version of Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave was released by Traffic in 1971.

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You shouldn’t have took more than you gave
We wouldn’t be in this mess today
And though we’ve gone our separate ways
The dues we have to pay are still the same

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Traffic. Some of the lyrics to Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Traffic and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave 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 Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave" means the words set to the music of Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Traffic. 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 Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave and the lyrics to Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Traffic who came here looking just for the lyrics to Shouldn’T Have Took More Than You Gave, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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