Lyrics to
Stay Out Of Trouble

This version of Stay Out Of Trouble was released by Kansas in 1979.

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Step outside and feel the tingle
Trouble finds you every night
You wonder where nobody knows you
Your civil tone is not polite
You got no friends, you don’t like people
You tried it once and they let you down
And after seven years you’re still hurt and angry
And inside your head is an awful sound

Some say that trouble is my middle name
I find it very easy and I sin out just the same
So stay out of trouble, don’t cry
Stay out of trouble, you’ll die

You’re on the street the clock strikes 11
And it takes that seven years away
Now you’re walking with that lovely lady
And just like that you can hear her say
“Well I know for sure you ain’t got the money
for an ounce of coke or a Cadillac!”
I said, “It ain’t no use in trying to fool me
A big woman like you has got to fight back”

Inside your head it sounds like thunder
And your room becomes an ugly shell
You get in your car and you start the engine
And you drive with your right foot in hell
Well, someone said, “ain’t that funny
Well, I saw that boy just the other night”
Went into this bar and really got rowdy
With his friends and him is an awful fight

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The lyrics for Stay Out Of Trouble are defined as the words making up the song released by Kansas in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Stay Out Of Trouble have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Kansas 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 Stay Out Of Trouble by Kansas 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 Stay Out Of Trouble" means the words set to the music of Stay Out Of Trouble, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kansas. 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 Stay Out Of Trouble and the lyrics to Stay Out Of Trouble are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kansas who came here looking just for the lyrics to Stay Out Of Trouble, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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