Lyrics to
Street Kids

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They must have had the whole thing planned
There must have been a hundred
If we make a stand
I think we’ll be outnumbered
If I’d had the chance
Then I could understand
Why I’m a juvenile delinquent
In an East End gang

And if you think you’ve seen gasoline burning in my eyes
Don’t be alarmed, tell yourself it’s good to be, it’s good to be alive

It’s just another street kid on your tail
Running on the wrong side of the rails
With my boot lace tie and my hand-me-downs
You know I run the toughest bunch this side of town
Those street kids making news just being around

I’ve been bottled and been brained
Squealers can’t be trusted
If we fight tonight
You can bet we’ll all be busted
I’d like to break away
From the rut I’m in
But beggars can’t be choosers
And I was born to sin

Let’s hear it for the street kids
Making news just being around

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Elton John has released many songs over the years besides Street Kids. Elton John released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Empty Sky, Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John, Madman Across The Water, 11/17/2010, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player), Caribou, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, Rock Of The Westies, Blue Moves, A Single Man, Victim Of Love, 21 At 33, The Fox, Jump Up!, Too Low For Zero, Breaking Hearts, Ice On Fire, Leather Jackets, Reg Strikes Back, Sleeping With The Past, The One, Duets, Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop, Made In England, The Big Picture, One Night Only, Songs From The West Coast, and Peachtree Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elton John.

About Lyrics and Street Kids by Elton John

The lyrics for Street Kids are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Elton John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Street Kids 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 Kids - Elton John 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 Kids by Elton John 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 Kids" means the words set to the music of Street Kids, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. 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 Kids and the lyrics to Street Kids are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Street Kids, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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