Lyrics to
Street Collage

This version of Street Collage was released by Styx in 1972.

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Well, you see now
I’m a depression baby
And I remember the WPA
If we could just start the same thing again
And get people working out
There, why not?
Is it too menial for somebody to sweep the street?

And if you’ve got enough money where you don’t have to work
Let’s face it, who wants to work?
There’s no reason why anybody
That five generations of people
Got to be on welfare

I had one gentlemen get in —
No offense to you gentlemen, he had long hair and a beard —
And I told him,
He had better go home and take a bath;
He had B.O. so bad, it was terrible
I said “You might be educated,
But did your parents tell you to go dirty?”

See the latest issue
Hard up, see
Chicago scene

Kids nowadays, that’s the whole thing
Too much money, they’ve got too much money
They don’t have to struggle and work for things
Like when I was growing up had to do
And I was lucky if I got that job
Delivering hats in a hat store
For twenty-five cents per hat
Too much money today is with the young kids
Everything was handed to ’em,
And that’s why they are the way they are

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About Lyrics and Street Collage by Styx

The lyrics for Street Collage are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Styx. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Street Collage have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Street Collage - Styx and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Street Collage by Styx in multiple ways. 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 Street Collage" means the words set to the music of Street Collage, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Styx. 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 Street Collage and the lyrics to Street Collage are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Styx who came here looking just for the lyrics to Street Collage, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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