Lyrics to
Ashes To The Wind

This version of Ashes To The Wind was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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Gonna build us a fire
It’s gonna light up the sea
Burn all the bridges down
Set the people free
Burn the poison from the pain
Evil from the man

We’re gonna scatter the ashes to the wind

Gonna build us a fire
It’s gonna light up the blue
Burn all the cages down
Let the people through
Burn the poison from the fruit
Evil from the root

We’re gonna scatter the ashes to the wind

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Ashes To The Wind. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Ashes To The Wind by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Ashes To The Wind are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Ashes To The Wind have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Ashes To The Wind - Manfred Mann's Earth Band and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Ashes To The Wind by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in multiple ways. 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 Ashes To The Wind" means the words set to the music of Ashes To The Wind, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Ashes To The Wind and the lyrics to Ashes To The Wind are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ashes To The Wind, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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