You Got to Jive to Stay Alive / Spanish Midnight Songtext
von Marc Bolan and T. Rex

T. Rex
Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow
You′ve Got To Jive To Stay Alive
-- Spanish Midnight

you've got to jive, jive
to stay alive


I′m a silver stud
I hear your sticking up my heart
everything I do, I do for you
I'm a silver stud
I'm gonna stick it up in my heart
everything I do, I do for you

you′ve got to jive, jive
to stay alive

I′m a silver stud
I'm gonna stick it up my heart
everything I do, I do for you
Spanish midnight,
all I want to do is love you tonight
One more time...

(note -- back in the mid-70′s, "jive" often meant "agree with"
so this song takes on none of the meaning
we probably instantly assume it does in the 1990's)