Lyrics to
Stiff Competition

This version of Stiff Competition was released by Cheap Trick in 1978.

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Stiff competition
If i go up-you take me higher
Stiff competition
And when i’m down- you take me higher
There’s stiff competition all over the world
I screw you-you screw me-they screw us
Here we go again
Oh- but we have so much fun, so much fun
When we’re together
When we’re together
When we’re together-now
I looked hard in your eyes
It was love at first sight
It took me minutes-you’re still waiting
Waiting for your turn, you turn
It won’t be long
Stiff competition
I work hard-every day of my life
Stiff competition
Get it up-you take me higher
Stiff competition
All over the world
The more i get- the more i like it
The bigger they are- the harder they fall
Again
Stiff competition
Stiff competition
Stiff competition
Stiff competition

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About Lyrics and Stiff Competition by Cheap Trick

When you decide to study the lyrics to Stiff Competition, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Cheap Trick. Some of the lyrics to Stiff Competition have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Cheap Trick and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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