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A Thousand Conversations

This version of A Thousand Conversations was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1976.

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A thousand conversations on a never ending theme
Seem to linger in my mind like the fragments of a dream
That was once a part of you and remains a part of me
It’s the unreal world we lived in that was born of fantasy

You whiled away the hours, making promises that might
Have just changed the world we knew, if they’d only turned out right
But now I’m a little wise
I can even raise a laugh
At the funny face you pulled on a faded photograph

New days replace yesterdays in time
It’s well to bear in mind
That new ways erase
Nothing stays the same
And now you’ve even changed your name

Forever I’ll remember as I pass by on the train
Streets of paradise we loved
Now so few of them remain

Guess it’s finally goodbye
Seems we came so suddenly
To the end of childhood dreams
And the way things used to be

La la la la, la la la la, la la la la, la la

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

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