Lyrics
Can't get to work
Expressing difficulty in reaching or engaging in work.
Can't get to sleep
Expressing difficulty in falling asleep.
You got to move your dancing feet
Encouraging the listener to dance and move their feet.
You've got to roam
Encouraging a sense of exploration and adventure; to roam.
All over the world
Emphasizing the idea of roaming and exploring all corners of the world.
I've made mistakes
Acknowledging personal mistakes made by the speaker and the listener.
And so have you
Highlighting the shared experience of making mistakes.
Lived in deceit and light of truth
Referencing a life marked by both deceit and the pursuit of truth.
You've got to roam
Reiterating the call to roam and explore globally.
All over the world
Emphasizing the idea of traveling and experiencing the world.
You get to roam (you get to rome)
Repeating the idea of getting to roam and explore, with a play on words ('rome').
You get to roam (you get to rome)
Continuing the emphasis on the opportunity to roam.
You get to rome!
Assertively stating the privilege or opportunity to roam.
You get to roam (you get to rome)
Repeating the encouragement to roam with the play on words.
You get to roam (you get to rome)
Continuing the affirmation of the freedom to roam.
You get to roam!
Asserting the privilege of roaming globally.
The vatican or ancient greece
Listing historical and cultural references, suggesting a wide range of places to explore.
Roll down the Nile, the Seven Seas
Further expanding on the idea of diverse places to roam, invoking imagery of travel.
You get to roam
Reiterating the call to roam and explore worldwide.
All over the world
Emphasizing the expansive nature of roaming and exploring globally.
We're not far west
Describing a location neither fully west nor east, implying a sense of being in-between.
But not quite east
Highlighting the speaker's position in a middle ground between west and east.
We find ourselves
Expressing a realization of the current state or condition.
Somewhere in-between
Describing a state of existence somewhere between extremes.
We need to roam all over the world
Stressing the need to explore and roam across the world.
We get to roam (we get to rome)
Extending the call to roam to a collective "we," emphasizing shared exploration.
We get to roam (we get to rome)
Repeating the idea of the collective opportunity to roam.
We get to rome!
Affirming the collective privilege or right to roam.
We get to roam (we get to rome)
Reiterating the collective encouragement to explore and roam.
We get to roam (we get to rome)
Continuing the collective affirmation of the freedom to roam.
We get to roam!
Affirming the collective privilege of exploring and roaming globally.
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