Lyrics to
You’ve Got A Cold

This version of You’Ve Got A Cold was released by 10Cc in 1977.

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Your nose is runnin’
And your eyes are red
Your head is achin’
You’d be better in bed
From the bottom of your fever
To the throbbing in your toes
You’ve got a cold
You’ve got a cold

You’re searching madly
To find a cure
But the mercury’s rising
To a hundred and four
You’ve got a beauty, a bad ass
The mother of them all
You’ve got a cold
You’ve got a cold

Ain’t no use in fightin’ it
Get into bed and try to sweat it out

Hot toddies won’t help you
Warm blankets won’t sweat it out
Inhalants just choke you
Hot flushes will tell you
Anyway you’ve got it
Ain’t no doubt about it
Nothin’ new about
You can scream and shout it

Hot toddies won’t help you
Warm blankets won’t sweat it out
Inhalants just choke you
Hot flushes will tell you
Anyway you’ve got it
Ain’t no doubt about it
Nothin’ new about
You can’t fight it

Foreign bodies in your Kleenex
You’ve got no taste at all
While your system is dyin’
The bugs are havin’ a ball
You’ve got a beauty, a bad ass
The mother of them all
You’ve got a cold
You’ve got a cold

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About Lyrics and You’Ve Got A Cold by 10Cc

When you decide to study the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Cold, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by 10Cc. Some of the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Cold have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only 10Cc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Cold 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 You’Ve Got A Cold" means the words set to the music of You’Ve Got A Cold, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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’Ve Got A Cold and the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Cold are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Cold, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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