Lyrics to
Room To Breathe

This version of Room To Breathe was released by Hall & Oates in 1976.

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All you want is the shadow behind me
Don’t you know that it’s nowhere to stand
What if I didn’t call you tomorrow
Maybe you’d fall apart after that
You keep it so tight l can’t stand it
There’s no room for love when it’s ended
So give me Room to Breathe
The choice to stay or leave
I don’t know what you need
So give me Room to Breathe
If you keep in your mind there’s no future
It makes ‘now’ so much lighter to bear
If you deal with it ever so loosely
You just might shake it, it might clear the air
You keep it so tight I can’t stand it
There’s no room for love when it’s ended

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Hall & Oates has released many songs over the years besides Room To Breathe. Hall & Oates released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bigger Than Both Of Us, Beauty On A Back Street, Along The Red Ledge, X-Static, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Big Bam Boom, Ooh Yeah!, Change Of Season, Marigold Sky, Do It For Love, and Our Kind Of Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Hall & Oates.

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About Lyrics and Room To Breathe by Hall & Oates

The lyrics to Room To Breathe are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Hall & Oates in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Room To Breathe are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Hall & Oates and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Room To Breathe back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Room To Breathe by Hall & Oates in a number of ways. 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 Room To Breathe" means the words set to the music of Room To Breathe, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 Room To Breathe and the lyrics to Room To Breathe are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Room To Breathe, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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