Lyrics to
Back Home Again

This version of Back Home Again was released by John Denver in 1974.

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There’s a storm across the valley, clouds are rolling in,
the afternoon is heavy on your shoulders.
There’s a truck out on the four lane, a mile or more away,
the whining of his wheels just makes it colder.

He’s an hour away from riding on your prayers up in the sky
and ten days on the road are barely gone.
There’s a fire softly burning, supper’s on the stove,
but it’s the light in your eyes that makes him warm.

Hey, it’s good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again.

There’s all the news to tell him, how’s you spend your time,
and what’s the latest thing the neighbors say?
And your mother called last Friday, “Sunshine” made her cry
and you felt the baby move just yesterday.

Hey, it’s good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again.

Oh, the time that I can lay this tired old body down,
and feel your fingers feather soft upon me.
The kisses that I live for, the love that lights my way,
the happiness that living with you brings me.

It’s the sweetest thing I know of, just spending time with you.
It’s the little things that make a house a home.
Like a fire softly burning and supper on the stove,
the light in your eyes that makes me warm.

Hey, it’s good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again.

Hey, it’s good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again.
I said hey, it’s good to be back home again.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides Back Home Again. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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About Lyrics and Back Home Again by John Denver

The lyrics for Back Home Again are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by John Denver. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Back Home Again 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 Back Home Again - John Denver 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 Back Home Again by John Denver 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 Back Home Again" means the words set to the music of Back Home Again, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Home Again and the lyrics to Back Home Again are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Back Home Again, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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