Lyrics to
Before Believing

This version of Before Believing was released by Emmylou Harris in 1975.

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Winter Summer seasons is taken over it’s quiet
Like new fallen snow
I told you summer stories but outside is getting mighty cold
I told you everything I could about me
Told you everything I could
How would you feel if the world was falling apart around you

Pieces of the sky were falling in your neighbors yard
But not on you
Wouldn’t you feel just a little bit funny
Think maybe there’s something you oughta do

Solutions that never lay down before you the answers are all around
Believing is all the friend you need to talk to
Believing in you
I told you everything I could about me
Told you everything I could

I told you everything I could about me
Told you everything I could

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About Lyrics and Before Believing by Emmylou Harris

When you decide to study the lyrics to Before Believing, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to Before Believing have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Emmylou Harris and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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