Lyrics to
Ain’t No Song

This version of Ain’T No Song was released by James Taylor in 1974.

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There ain’t no melody and I can’t find a harmony.
If there were a way to say it, you know I would have played it.
Well, I’m a man of few words, trying to find a rhyme
and finally it occurred to me that I’m wasting my time.
There ain’t no rhyme or reason, ain’t no time or season,
Ain’t no way around it, I know I would have found it.

There ain’t no song in the whole wide world could hardly sing without you.
There ain’t no song in the whole wide world to tell you the way that I feel.
Painters use their eyes to show us what they see
but when that canvas dries we all see it differently.

There ain’t black or white, there ain’t no day or night.
There ain’t no way around it, y.ou know I would have found it

There ain’t no song in the whole wide world could hardly sing without you.
There ain’t no song in the whole wide world to tell you the way that I feel.

No, no, no, I might as well pack it on up,
not even this song’s gonna tell you the way that I feel.

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About Lyrics and Ain’T No Song by James Taylor

The lyrics to Ain’T No Song are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Ain’T No Song have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor 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 Ain’T No Song by James Taylor. 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 Ain’T No Song" means the words set to the music of Ain’T No Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Ain’T No Song and the lyrics to Ain’T No Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ain’T No Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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