Lyrics to
Street Life

This version of Street Life was released by Neil Diamond in 1976.

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Hey, let me show you the street life
Hey, let me show you the finks,
The punks, the judge, the junkies
Stay close to me for a while
For a while, for a while

Say boy, you got to get street wise
Hey, little boy
You’re a babe in arms
Stay out of harm’s way
Wait right here with me for a while
For a while, for a while

Street life, hell in the city
You got to really watch out for that
Street life
Say, it ain’t pretty
You got to know your way around
Or somehow you might get hurt
Get hurt, get hurt

Say, let me show you the night life
Say, let me show you the queens
The dudes, the class, the crudes
The folks that inhabit the night
Let me set it right

I’m gonna give you my warning
I’m gonna tell you the street’s alive
The sound of jive
You’ve just arrived
Try it for size for a while, for a while

Street life, hell in the city
You got to really watch out for that
Street life
Say, it ain’t pretty
You got to know your way around
Or somehow you might get hurt
Get hurt, get hurt

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About Lyrics and Street Life by Neil Diamond

When you decide to study the lyrics to Street Life, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Neil Diamond. Some of the lyrics to Street Life have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Diamond and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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