Lyrics to
Wild

This version of Wild was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1974.

Visit the Grand Funk Railroad Lyrics profile at Decade Lyrics - it has the Wild lyrics as well as the rest of the songs by Grand Funk Railroad.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Grand Funk Railroad or about the 1970s in general.

I don’t know why, feel quite like a natural guy.
But, ever since I was a baby, people calling me crazy.
You know I ain’t crazy.
For, I oh I, I got my finger in the pie.
Until I took a step back, and looked where I was at.
I said “I’m not really satisfied.”

I wanna’ be wild like I’m supposed to be,
Strong and totally free.
I want to be wild I know I am,
Wild just like a natural man …

Who was born to be wild.

Wild, born wild, wild the young American style.
Together we are strong, my brother said there ain’t no heaven.
There ain’t no orders above us.
Now, I don’t know why, can get by on a natural high.
My high is the strength of my nature it’s a good vibration, now, feeling sensation.

Who was born to be wild.

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Grand Funk Railroad?

Grand Funk Railroad has released many songs over the years besides Wild. Grand Funk Railroad released songs from 1969 to 1983 spanning across albums like On Time, Grand Funk, Closer To Home, Survival, E Pluribus Funk, Phoenix, We're An American Band, All The Girls In The World Beware!!, Shinin' On, Good Singin', Good Playin', Born To Die, Grand Funk Lives, and What's Funk?. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Grand Funk Railroad.

If you're a fan of 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1974 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Wild by Grand Funk Railroad

When you decide to study the lyrics to Wild, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Some of the lyrics to Wild have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Grand Funk Railroad and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Wild 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 Wild" means the words set to the music of Wild, 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 Wild and the lyrics to Wild 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 Wild, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Grand Funk Railroad

Visit our Grand Funk Railroad profile for more Grand Funk Railroad songs, lyrics & info!

)