Lyrics to
Tokin’s

From the Album: Number 5 |

This version of Tokin’S was released by The Steve Miller Band in 1970.

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Sittin’ gettin’ higher in the back of a limousine
While people all around me
They are finding it harder to dream
Impossible people seen only in nightmares
Are beginning to make it real
And disorder keeps fadin’
The times they are changin’
Well, I wish I was behind the wheel

So I could live it just a little bit longer
Do my best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change
We’ve got to live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change

Well, time and time and time again
I’ve been stuck out in the rain
But life has been so doggone sweet
There’s no reason to complain
But the time has come for all to be one
Yes, we can talk about it now
And from the middle of the mess
Here comes one more guess
And I know it’s gonna work somehow

If we can live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change
We’ve got to live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change

Cause we’ve gotta live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change
We’ve got to live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change

Now who would ever believe it could happen
Right here in my hometown
Especially when it’s so far north
Of the Mason-Dixon line
But some of the people they just won’t forget
While others slip into regret
And if things keep goin’ the way they’re goin’
I just might get killed yet

But I wanna live it just a little bit longer
Do my best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change
We’ve got to live it just a little bit longer
Do our best to make our love stronger
In a while I know it’s gonna change
And in a while I know it’s gonna change
And in a while I know it’s gonna change


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The lyrics for Tokin’S are defined as the words making up the song released by The Steve Miller Band in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Tokin’S have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Steve Miller Band 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 Tokin’S by The Steve Miller Band 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 Tokin’S" means the words set to the music of Tokin’S, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Steve Miller Band. 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 Tokin’S and the lyrics to Tokin’S are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Steve Miller Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Tokin’S, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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