Lyrics to
At The Sunrise

This version of At The Sunrise was released by Chicago in 1971.

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How could I be happy
Without her by my side
Without her smiling face
At the sunrise
How could I keep living
With emptiness inside
With no one there to touch
At the sunrise
She gave meaning to my words
She helped me find my way
The time I had to leave her
Leave her all alone
The way she looked at me
Made me cry
I know she understands me
She knows I’m feelin’ bad
Until I’m back beside her
At the sunrise

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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides At The Sunrise. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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About Lyrics and At The Sunrise by Chicago

The lyrics for At The Sunrise are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Chicago. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to At The Sunrise 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 At The Sunrise - Chicago 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 At The Sunrise by Chicago 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 At The Sunrise" means the words set to the music of At The Sunrise, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 At The Sunrise and the lyrics to At The Sunrise are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to At The Sunrise, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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