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(A Place To) Hideaway

This version of (A Place To) Hideaway was released by The Carpenters in 1971.

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I’ve got to find a place to hideaway
Far from the shadows of my mind
Sunlight and laughter, love ever after
For how I long to find a place to hideaway

I hear you whisper and I must obey,
Blindly follow where you’ll be
Knowing tomorrow brings only sorrow
Where can I go to find a place to hideaway

Bright colored pinwheels go round in my head
I run through the mist of the wine

(*) The night and the music remind me instead
The world once was mine
I’ll save my pennies for a rainy day
But where can I buy another you?
Dreams are for sleeping
Love is for weeping
Oh, how I long to find a place to hideaway

Repeat (*)

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When you decide to study the lyrics to (A Place To) Hideaway, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to (A Place To) Hideaway have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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