Lyrics to
You Can’t Stop The Music

This version of You Can’T Stop The Music was released by The Kinks in 1975.

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And so Norman decides to stop living
Out his fantasy of being a rock star and
Accept reality. This is the end for
Norman but not for us because there
Will always be someone ready to take
His place – after all, euerybody’s a
Star!

You Can’t Stop The Music

Let’s all raise a glass
To the rock stars of the past,
Those that made it,
Those that faded,
Those that never even made the grade,
Those that we thought would never last.

Singers come and go,
And stars fade away.
They vanish in the haze
And they’re never seen again,
But the music just keeps playing on.

They can’t stop the music,
They can’t stop the music,
They can’t stop the music playing on.

I’ve been half a million places,
I’ve seen half a million people who stare,
I’ve been a star and down and out,
I’ve been put on, sat on, punched and spat on,
They’ve called me a faggot, a spiv and a fake,
They can knock me down and tread on my face,
They can’t stop the music playing on.

Let’s all raise a glass
To the rock stars of the past,
Those that made it,
Those that faded,
Those that never even made the grade,
Those that we thought would never last.

Singers come and go,
And stars fade away.
They vanish in the haze
And they’re never seen again,
But they can’t stop the music playing on.

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The lyrics for You Can’T Stop The Music are defined as the words making up the song released by The Kinks in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You Can’T Stop The Music have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Kinks and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to You Can’T Stop The Music by The Kinks if you think through it. 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 You Can’T Stop The Music" means the words set to the music of You Can’T Stop The Music, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Kinks. 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 You Can’T Stop The Music and the lyrics to You Can’T Stop The Music are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Kinks who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Can’T Stop The Music, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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