Lyrics to
Working Up A Sweat

This version of Working Up A Sweat was released by Alice Cooper in 1973.

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Aw, When you touch there, honey
Makes my blood perspire
You got my body flaming
Like a California fire
Pulsing, pounding, pushing
No longer in control
Heatwave in my brain
Smolder in my soul

You got me workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
I’ve been playing all night long
Time I was gettin’ home
But I’ve got no place to get

Spontaneous combustion
Scientific fact
But your approach to friction
An unnatural act
Bells I hear ain’t fire drills
I hope you understand
It’s a bona fide five alarmer
Melting in my hand

You got me workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
I’ve been playing all night long
Time I was gettin’ home
But I’ve got no place to get

Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Yeah, yeah

I’ve been playing all night long
‘Bout time I was gettin’ home
But I’ve, ooh

Dante’s famed inferno
Was a trip to hell and back
But you and a bottle in a cheap hotel
Screams pyromaniac
Bandages came off today
Really feeling sick
The hardest part’s explainin’
All those blisters on my – nose!

Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
I’ve been playing all night long
Time I was gettin’ home
But I’ve got no place to get

Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat

I’ve been playing all night long
‘Bout time I was gettin’ home
But I’ve, ooh

Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat
Workin’ up a sweat

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Working Up A Sweat, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to Working Up A Sweat have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Alice Cooper and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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