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Time For Truth

This version of Time For Truth was released by The Jam in 1977.

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Whatcha trying to say that haven’t tried to say before
You’re just another red balloon with a lot of hot gass
Why don’t you fuck off?
And you think you’ve got it worked out
And you think you’ve got it made
And you trying to play the hero
But you never walk home in the dark
I think it’s time for truth
And the truth is you’ve lost uncle Jimmy
Admit your failure and decline with honour while you can
And you think you’ve got it sussed out
And you think that we’re brain washed
And you’re trying for a police state
So you can rule our body and minds
What ever happend to the great empire?
You bastards haved turned it into manure
Time for the young to stick together now
I bet you sleep at night with silk sheets and a clean mind
While killers roam the streets in numbers dressed in blue
And you’re trying to hide it from us
But you know what I mean
Bring forward those six pigs
We wanna see them swing sod high

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About Lyrics and Time For Truth by The Jam

The lyrics to Time For Truth are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Jam used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Time For Truth have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Jam and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Time For Truth by The Jam. 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 Time For Truth" means the words set to the music of Time For Truth, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. 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 Time For Truth and the lyrics to Time For Truth are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to Time For Truth, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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