Lyrics to
Queen Of The Hours

This version of Queen Of The Hours was released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1971.

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Queen of the hours lies waiting for the wind to blow away the veil of time
Slowly now the threads of age are starting to unwind

Queen of the hours
Along, Along, Along the path of time, of time,
She is still
The clock shall tell the tale
When all is well, is well.

Black was the night that came in from the East and caused the land to sleep.
Riding on a storm, it carved a message in Isabella Creek.

Dawn is the death wish night has passed away, it left the sacred flower,
Opened up the grave and bowed its life unto the Queen of Hours.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Queen Of The Hours, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo). Some of the lyrics to Queen Of The Hours have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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