Lyrics to
A Song For While I’m Away

This version of A Song For While I’M Away was released by Thin Lizzy in 1973.

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These words I wrote, play and sing to you
Do not convey the love I brought and bring to you
For this is a song for while I’m away
To say all the things I’d love to say

You are my life, my everything, you’re all I have
You are my hopes, my dreams, my world come true
You’re all I have
Please heed me now these words I have to say

Now I’m headed for the border
You see this song it ends right at the start
I swore when I was younger
No one would win my heart

And far away hills look greener still
But soon they’ll all slip away
It’s then I’ll be returning
And I’ll be coming home to stay

You are my life, my everything, you’re all I have
You are my hopes, my dreams, my world come true
You’re all I have
Please heed me now these words I have to say

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You can understand the lyrics to A Song For While I’M Away 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 Song For While I’M Away" means the words set to the music of A Song For While I’M Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Song For While I’M Away and the lyrics to A Song For While I’M Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Song For While I’M Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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