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After The Ball / Million Miles

This version of After The Ball / Million Miles was released by Paul Mccartney in 1979.

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After the ball, after the ball, you were the one out in the hall
You were the one, the one who would love me, after the ball.
After the ball, after the ball, you were the one out in the hall
You were the one, the one who would love me, after the ball.

Well, I arrived, looked around but the room was full of strangers
Nowhere was a freindly face to be found.
Later on, I awoke, but the party it was over
There you were waiting to bring me ’round.

How many million miles, day-oh?
How many million miles, day-oh?
When I get up, up, up in the morning, whoa! Lord I know.
When I look up, up, up in the morning, whoa! Lord I know.
How many million miles, day-oh?
How many million miles, day-oh?
How many million miles, day-oh?

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Paul Mccartney has released many songs over the years besides After The Ball / Million Miles. Paul Mccartney released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like McCartney, Ram, Wild Life, Band On The Run, Red Rose Speedway, Venus And Mars, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, London Town, Back To The Egg, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes Of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play, CHOBA B CCCP (Back In The USSR), Flowers In The Dirt, Tripping The Live Fantastic, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Off The Ground, Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run, Driving Rain, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, and Memory Almost Full. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Paul Mccartney.

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About Lyrics and After The Ball / Million Miles by Paul Mccartney

When you decide to study the lyrics to After The Ball / Million Miles, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Paul Mccartney. Some of the lyrics to After The Ball / Million Miles have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Paul Mccartney and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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