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Age

This version of Age was released by Jim Croce in 1973.

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I’ve been up and down and around and ’round and back again,
I’ve been so many places I can’t remember where or when.
And my only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend
Never really was a friend at all.

I’ve traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less,
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time.
I’ve turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again.

Once I had myself a million, now I’ve only got a dime,
The diff’rence don’t seem quite as bad today.
With a nickel or a million, I was searching all the time
For something that I never lost or left behind.

I’ve traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less,
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time.
I’ve turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again.

And Now I’m in my second circle and I’m headin’ for the top,
I’ve learned a lot of things along the way.
I’ll be careful while I’m climbin’ ’cause it hurts a lot to drop,
When you’re down nobody gives a damn anyway.

I’ve traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less,
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time.
I’ve turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again.

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The lyrics to Age are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jim Croce used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Age have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jim Croce 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 Age by Jim Croce. 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 Age" means the words set to the music of Age, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jim Croce. 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 Age and the lyrics to Age are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jim Croce who came here looking just for the lyrics to Age, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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