Lyrics to
Beautiful Child

This version of Beautiful Child was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1979.

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Beautiful child
Beautiful child
You are a beautiful child
And I am a fool once more
You fell in love when I was only ten
The years disappeared
Much has gone by since then
I bite my lip, can you send me away
You touch
I have no choice
I have to stay
I had to stay
Sleepless child
There is so little time
Your eyes say yes
But you don’t say yes
I wish that you were mine
You say it will be harder in the morning
I wait for you to say, just go
Your hands, held mine so few hours
And I’m not a child anymore
I’m not a child anymore
I’m tall enough
To reach for the stars
I’m old enough
To love you from afar
To trusting… yes?
But then women usually are
I’m not a child anymore
No, I’m not a child, oh no
Tall enough to reach for the stars
I will do
As I’m told
Even if I never hold you again
I never hold you again

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About Lyrics and Beautiful Child by Fleetwood Mac

When you decide to study the lyrics to Beautiful Child, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Fleetwood Mac. Some of the lyrics to Beautiful Child have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Fleetwood Mac and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Beautiful Child if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Beautiful Child" means the words set to the music of Beautiful Child, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Fleetwood Mac. 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 Beautiful Child and the lyrics to Beautiful Child are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Fleetwood Mac who came here looking just for the lyrics to Beautiful Child, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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