Lyrics to
Cable Car

This version of Cable Car was released by The Hollies in 1971.

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Cable car, flying high
Passing stars or wondering why
Did she go or did she die
I don’t know

Mountainside, not so green
Snow is more than ever seen
Will she come back in a dream
I don’t know

Thoughts of her reminding me
Of a time I couldn’t see
Anything but you and me together

Colored cloud, on you go
To a land you may not know
If you see her
Tell her I’m so alone

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About Lyrics and Cable Car by The Hollies

When you decide to study the lyrics to Cable Car, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by The Hollies. Some of the lyrics to Cable Car have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Hollies and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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