Lyrics to
Another Door

This version of Another Door was released by Carly Simon in 1971.

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Some destination,
A footstep in the sand
Some indication,
A truth to understand.
I’m going hunting,
To find it if I can.
But it might be just an arrow,
To still some other plan.

Hidden meanings and love’s strange ways
Keep me looking for more and more,
But all I find is that behind
Each new door is another door.

Time’s printed pages,
Words you won’t forget;
go out and try to live them,
you’ll be an angel yet.
I’m going hunting,
I think I’ll win the bet.
But it might end up winning me sorrow,
And leaving my soul in debt.

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Another Door. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Another Door by Carly Simon

The lyrics to Another Door are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carly Simon used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Another Door have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carly Simon 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 Another Door by Carly Simon. 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 Another Door" means the words set to the music of Another Door, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Another Door and the lyrics to Another Door are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Another Door, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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