Lyrics to
Speed Kills

Released by 10Cc in 1973
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This version of Speed Kills was released by 10Cc in 1973.

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One fine day I started writing home
One finds
It’s so hard
To make it

It’s gotta be the right time
It’s gotta be the right kind line
It’s gotta be the mainline

It’s gotta be
It better be
So let it be

One fine day


10Cc has released many songs over the years besides Speed Kills. 10Cc released songs from 1973 to 1995 spanning across albums like 10cc, Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!, Deceptive Bends, Bloody Tourists, Look Hear?, Ten Out Of 10, Windows In The Jungle, ...Meanwhile, and Mirror Mirror. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by 10Cc.

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About Lyrics and Speed Kills by 10Cc

When you decide to study the lyrics to Speed Kills, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by 10Cc. Some of the lyrics to Speed Kills have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only 10Cc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Speed Kills 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 Speed Kills" means the words set to the music of Speed Kills, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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 Speed Kills and the lyrics to Speed Kills are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Speed Kills, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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