Lyrics to
Winner Take All

This version of Winner Take All was released by Styx in 1974.

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you’ve got to be strong
if you’re going to make it baby
you’ve got to stand tall
if you’re going to survive

so just take my hand
and I’ll show you how to feel alive
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

winner take all
that’s the way I play it
playing my cards as the world goes by
winner take all
that’s the way that I get high

you live your own life
always needing someone baby
then I appear to answer your call
together I know
we can ride the highway past them all
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

winner take all
that’s the way I play it
playing my cards as the world goes by
winner take all
that’s the way that I get high
high high

winner take all
that’s the way I play it
playing my cards as the world goes by
winner take all
that’s the way that I get high

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About Lyrics and Winner Take All by Styx

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

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

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