Lyrics to
Close To Me

This version of Close To Me was released by Bill Withers in 1976.

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Close to me
Said I want you close to me
I believe
I can bring you happiness

Get close to me
Get closer to the feelin’
Let’s get down
And let the feelin’ do the rest

Come ‘ere close to me
Anyway you want to
Let’s let it be
What makes you feel the best

Feelin’ high on love and full of energy
And I want you close to me
Said I want you close to me

Come ‘ere close to me
Anyway you want to
Get close to me
Come and take what you can get

Come ‘ere close to me
A little closer to the feelin
Get close to me
And make me shake and sweat

Feelin’ high on love and full of energy
And I want you close to me
Come ‘ere close to me
Close to me

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Bill Withers has released many songs over the years besides Close To Me. Bill Withers released songs from 1971 to 1985 spanning across albums like Just As I Am, Still Bill, Live At Carnegie Hall, #NAME?, Making Music, Making Friends, Naked & Warm, Menagerie, 'Bout Love, and Watching You, Watching Me. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bill Withers.

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About Lyrics and Close To Me by Bill Withers

When you decide to study the lyrics to Close To Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to Close To Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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