Lyrics to
Back Down To Earth

Released by Carly Simon in 1978
From the Album: Boys In The Trees |

This version of Back Down To Earth was released by Carly Simon in 1978.

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We jumped into a river on the moon
But the water was too cold
We tried to buy the morning star
But it was already sold
I wanted to make it big with you
But my plans must have been to bold

And it’s back down to earth again
Back in my car and gone
Back on the road
Back on the road alone

You were my summer angel
You’re eyes how they shone
Just last night we were talking about
How much our love had grown
I wanted to prove how good it could be
But my plans will have to be postponed

‘Cause it’s back down to earth again
Back in my car and gone
Back on the road
Back on the road alone


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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Back Down To Earth. 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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The lyrics to Back Down To Earth are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carly Simon in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Back Down To Earth are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carly Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Back Down To Earth back when it was created.

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Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Back Down To Earth by Carly Simon in a number of 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 Back Down To Earth" means the words set to the music of Back Down To Earth, 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 Back Down To Earth and the lyrics to Back Down To Earth 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 Back Down To Earth, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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