Lyrics to
Top Of The Pops

This version of Top Of The Pops was released by The Kinks in 1970.

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I’ve just come in at Number 25
I’m oh so happy, so glad to be alive
And everybody says it’s going to get to the top
Life is so easy when your record’s hot.
Go tell my mamma and my sister too
To press my trousers and polish my shoes
I might even end up a rock-and-roll god
It might turn into a steady job.
And my agent said to me: “Son, I always told you so.”
Now my record’s number 11 on the BBC
But number seven on the N.M.E.
Not the Melody Maker want to interview me
And ask my view on politics and theories on religion.
Now my record’s up to number 3
And a woman recognized me and started to scream
This all seems like a crazy dream
I’ve been invited to a dinner with a prominent queen
And now I’ve got friends that I never knew I had before.
It’s strange how people want you when you record’s high
‘Cos when it drops down they just pass you by
Now my agent just called me and said it me:
“Son your record’s just got to Number One.”

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About Lyrics and Top Of The Pops by The Kinks

The lyrics for Top Of The Pops are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by The Kinks. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Top Of The Pops have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Top Of The Pops - The Kinks and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Top Of The Pops by The Kinks in multiple ways. 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 Top Of The Pops" means the words set to the music of Top Of The Pops, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Kinks. 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 Top Of The Pops and the lyrics to Top Of The Pops are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Kinks who came here looking just for the lyrics to Top Of The Pops, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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