Lyrics to
Wasted

This version of Wasted was released by The Runaways in 1977.

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Blue skinned sleeping boys
Man you’re lookin’ wasted
Greasy wheels, streets of steel
No tellin’ what ya tasted
Good guys bad guys
Doesn’t really matter
Punch drunk, high on junk
Sad you are so shattered

Wasted lives of wasted drives
Wasted days an’ wasted nights
Wasted this an’ wasted that
Wasted is where you’re at

Torpedoes in tuxedos
Got iron in their hands
Cotton sound, lost an’ found
Is in every crazy man
Lonely rain, bad cocaine
Doesn’t really matter
China white, don’t treat ya right
Sad you are so shattered

Wasted lives of wasted drives
Wasted days an’ wasted nights
Wasted this an’ wasted that
Wasted is where you’re at

Madhouse melodies
Got beach rats on the run
Golden tractors, low plus factors
Silver bullets, rubber gun
Redneck rocker, or devil daughter
Doesn’t really matter
Cheap dope, ya can’t cope
Sad you are so shattered

Wasted lives of wasted drives
Wasted days an’ wasted nights
Wasted this an’ wasted that
Wasted is where you’re at

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About Lyrics and Wasted by The Runaways

When you decide to study the lyrics to Wasted, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Runaways. Some of the lyrics to Wasted have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Runaways and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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