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A Legend In My Time

This version of A Legend In My Time was released by Waylon Jennings in 1971.

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If heartaches brought fame in love’s crazy game
I’d be a legend a living legend in my time
If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets
I’d be a legend a living legend in my time.

But they don’t give awards and there’s no praise or fame
For a heart that’s been broken over love that’s in vain
If loneliness meant world acclaim everyone would know my name
I’d be a legend a living in my time.

But they don’t give awards and there’s no praise or fame
For a heart that’s been broken over love that’s in vain
If loneliness meant world acclaim everyone would know my name
I’d be a legend a living in my time…

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The lyrics to A Legend In My Time are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Waylon Jennings used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to A Legend In My Time have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Waylon Jennings 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 A Legend In My Time by Waylon Jennings. 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 A Legend In My Time" means the words set to the music of A Legend In My Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Waylon Jennings. 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 A Legend In My Time and the lyrics to A Legend In My Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Waylon Jennings who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Legend In My Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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