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All You Get From Love Is A Love Song

This version of All You Get From Love Is A Love Song was released by The Carpenters in 1977.

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Like sailin’ on a sailin’ ship to nowhere
Love took over my heart like an ocean breeze
As seagulls fly I knew that I was losin’
Love was washed away with the driftin’ tide

Oh it’s a dirty old shame
When all you get from love is a love song
That’s got you layin’ up nights just waitin’
for the music to start
It’s such a dirty old shame when you got to
take the blame for a love song
Because the best love songs are written

with a broken heart

And now the tears in my eyes are ever blinding
The future that lies before me I cannot see
Although tomorrow I know the sun is rising
Lighting up the world for everyone, but not for me

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The lyrics to All You Get From Love Is A Love Song are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Carpenters used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to All You Get From Love Is A Love Song have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Carpenters 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 All You Get From Love Is A Love Song by The Carpenters. 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 All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" means the words set to the music of All You Get From Love Is A Love Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 All You Get From Love Is A Love Song and the lyrics to All You Get From Love Is A Love Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to All You Get From Love Is A Love Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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