Lyrics to
Trying To Get Away

This version of Trying To Get Away was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1972.

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I been out on the road with my thumb in the air,
I’m a long way from home but I just don’t care.
The dust from the road makes it dry in my mouth,
When it’s cold up north, that’s when I head south.

‘Cause I been tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away, yeah.
Tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away, yeah.

I passed through New York just the other day,
The smog was bad but not as bad as L.A.
Sometimes I wonder what the world’s comin’ to.
Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna’ do.

‘Cause I been tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away, yeah.
I been tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away, yeah.

I been out on the road with my thumb in the air,
I’m a long way from home but I just don’t care.
The dust from the road makes it dry in my mouth,
When it’s cold up north, that’s when I head south.

Tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away.
Tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away.
Tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away.
Tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away.

‘Cause I been tryin’ to, tryin’ to get away, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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About Lyrics and Trying To Get Away by Grand Funk Railroad

The lyrics for Trying To Get Away are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Trying To Get Away 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 Trying To Get Away - Grand Funk Railroad 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 Trying To Get Away by Grand Funk Railroad 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 Trying To Get Away" means the words set to the music of Trying To Get Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. 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 Trying To Get Away and the lyrics to Trying To Get Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to Trying To Get Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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