Lyrics to 4-Way Street Medley

This version of 4-Way Street Medley was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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He’s a perfect stranger
Like a cross of himself and a fox
He’s a feeling arranger
And a changer of the ways he talks

He’s the unforseen danger
The keeper of the key to the locks
Know when you see him
Nothing can free him

Step aside, open wide
It’s the loner

If you see him in the subway
He’ll be down at the end of the car
Watching you move
Until he knows he knows who you are
When you get off at your station alone
He’ll know that you are

Know when you see him
Nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide…

I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy
The rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together
Chasing the moonlight
My cinnamon girl

Ten silver saxes,
A bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
And waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together
Chasing the moonlight
My cinnamon girl…

Be on my side,
I’ll be on your side, baby
There is no reason for you to hide
It’s so hard for me
Staying here all alone
When you could be taking me
For a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me
Over the rainbow,
Send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
Dead.

You take my hand,
I’ll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is
Too much sorrow
It’s impossible to make it today.

Yeah, she could drag me
Over the rainbow,
Send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
Dead.

About Lyrics and 4-Way Street Medley by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby

The lyrics to 4-Way Street Medley are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Stills, Nash & Young Crosby used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to 4-Way Street Medley 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 4-Way Street Medley 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 4-Way Street Medley" means the words set to the music of 4-Way Street Medley, 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 4-Way Street Medley and the lyrics to 4-Way Street Medley 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 4-Way Street Medley, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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