Lyrics to
Surrender

This version of Surrender was released by Cheap Trick in 1978.

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Mother told me, yes, she told me
That I’d meet girls like you
She also told me, “Stay away
You’ll never know what you’ll catch”
Just the other day I heard
Of a soldier’s falling off
Some Indonesian junk
That’s going round

Your Mommy’s all right
Your Daddy’s all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don’t give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey

Father says, “Your mother’s right
She’s really up on things
Before we married, Mommy served
In the WACS in the Philippines”
Now, I had heard the WACS recruited
Old maids for the war
But mommy isn’t one of those
I’ve known her all these years

Your Mommy’s all right
Your Daddy’s all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don’t give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey

Whatever happened to all this season’s
Losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking
Here’d they disappear?
But when I woke up, Mom and Dad
Are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rollin’
Got my KISS records out

Your Mommy’s all right
Your Daddy’s all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don’t give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey

Away
Away

Surrender
Surrender
But don’t give yourself away
Surrender
Surrender
But don’t give yourself away

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About Lyrics and Surrender by Cheap Trick

The lyrics for Surrender are defined as the words making up the song released by Cheap Trick in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Surrender have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Cheap Trick 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 Surrender by Cheap Trick 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 Surrender" means the words set to the music of Surrender, 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 Surrender and the lyrics to Surrender 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 Surrender, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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