Lyrics to
‘Belle’ Of The Earth

This version of ‘Belle’ Of The Earth was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1979.

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The road is empty,
The subway lies ahead,
There is no music all the sounds have gone dead.
The day is misty,
There’s no life around,
‘Cause there’s something wrong in this town.

Out in the distance,
There’s a simple sound,
It comes, it grows.
Bell of the earth,
Ringing like a tambourine,
Calling right out of the silent places,
Calling to me from the empty spaces.
Core of the earth,
Singing like a violin,
Calling right out of the silent places,
Calling me.

Out on the freeway, silence abounds.
The crowded highway is making no sound,
The limo driver, he endlessly waits,
For the long drive across the golden state.

Out in the distance,
There’s a simple sound,
It comes, it grows.
Bell of the earth,
Ringing like a tambourine,
Calling right out of the silent places,
Calling to me from the empty spaces.
Core of the earth,
Singing like a violin,
Calling right out of the silent places,
Calling me.

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides ‘Belle’ Of The Earth. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and ‘Belle’ Of The Earth by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for ‘Belle’ Of The Earth are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to ‘Belle’ Of The Earth 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 ‘Belle’ Of The Earth - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 ‘Belle’ Of The Earth by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 ‘Belle’ Of The Earth" means the words set to the music of ‘Belle’ Of The Earth, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 ‘Belle’ Of The Earth and the lyrics to ‘Belle’ Of The Earth are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to ‘Belle’ Of The Earth, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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