Lyrics to
The Road

This version of The Road was released by Chicago in 1970.

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If you’d like to get together
Then come right over to me
Ooh, We can do anything
That you like to do
If you’d like to give your love
Then please just feel free
Because I may be gone tomorrow
And not even know your name
Now please don’t misunderstand my loneliness
Let’s never ever talk of time
Cause friends may fade away
And our hopes will say goodnight
And our friendship would be lost
It would be such a waste of time
So let’s just
Let’s have a good thing girl
And let’s not worry
Let’s do everything we want
And let’s not cry
When it’s over
When I leave
Our thing won’t die
If you really understand
Then come right over to me
We can play together for a while
And still be free

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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides The Road. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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About Lyrics and The Road by Chicago

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Road, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to The Road have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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