Lyrics to
Don’t Let It Bring You Down

This version of Don’T Let It Bring You Down was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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Old man lying
By the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by,
Blue moon sinking
From the weight of the load
And the building scrape the sky,
Cold wind ripping
Down the allay at dawn
And the morning paper flies,
Dead man lying
By the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes.

Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only castles burning,
Find someone who’s turning
And you will come around.

Blind man running
Through the light
Of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down
To the river of sight
And you can really understand,
Red lights flashing
Through the window
In the rain,
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying
In a gutter in the lane,
If you’re walking home alone.

Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only castles burning,
Just find someone who’s turning
And you will come around.

Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only castles burning,
Just find someone who’s turning
And you will come around.

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About Lyrics and Don’T Let It Bring You Down by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby

The lyrics to Don’T Let It Bring You Down are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Stills, Nash & Young Crosby used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Don’T Let It Bring You Down have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Don’T Let It Bring You Down by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. 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 Don’T Let It Bring You Down" means the words set to the music of Don’T Let It Bring You Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. 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 Don’T Let It Bring You Down and the lyrics to Don’T Let It Bring You Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stills, Nash & Young Crosby who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Let It Bring You Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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