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Alone Too Long

Released by Hall & Oates in 1975
From the Album: Daryl Hall & John Oates |

This version of Alone Too Long was released by Hall & Oates in 1975.

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Just a little boy lost looking for a lamb in the all night city
Living in his lonely limousine
And though he never has to worry
He’s the only one and only one he’s ever gonna need
Absolutely he’s in definite need

Of a woman, child, and some better kind of love when the hot town’s hurt him
And he knows how happy he could be
But he don’t know if he can make it
Between the money and another lonely night
But now the time has come
Got to stay or run
Now the time has come

Oh maybe we’ve been Alone Too Long
And you don’t want to be lonely

Another pretty face another body ache still awake three-thirty
Dial another number — No one home
So he wastes his time with TV
And he wonders if he lost the only one
And wonders if he’s free
Too afraid to see
How alone he could be

Oh maybe we’ve been Alone Too Long
And you don’t want to be lonely


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Hall & Oates has released many songs over the years besides Alone Too Long. Hall & Oates released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bigger Than Both Of Us, Beauty On A Back Street, Along The Red Ledge, X-Static, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Big Bam Boom, Ooh Yeah!, Change Of Season, Marigold Sky, Do It For Love, and Our Kind Of Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Hall & Oates.

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The lyrics for Alone Too Long are defined as the words making up the song released by Hall & Oates in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Alone Too Long have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Hall & Oates and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Alone Too Long by Hall & Oates if you think through it. 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 Alone Too Long" means the words set to the music of Alone Too Long, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 Alone Too Long and the lyrics to Alone Too Long are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Alone Too Long, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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