Lyrics to
Take A Friend

This version of Take A Friend was released by Rush in 1974.

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Well, I’m lookin’ at you
And I’m wond’rin’ what you’re gonna do
Looks like you got no friends
No one to stick with you till the end

Take yourself a friend
Keep ’em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good…
So good

Yes, you think you’re all right
But now you’re lonely ev’ry night
Well, you need a friend
Someone on whom you can always depend

Yes, you need some advice
Well, let me put it to you nice
I said you need a friend
Someone who’ll stick with you to the end

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Take A Friend, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Rush. Some of the lyrics to Take A Friend have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rush and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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