Lyrics to
Beneath Still Waters

This version of Beneath Still Waters was released by Emmylou Harris in 1979.

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Beneath still waters
There’s a strong undertow
The surface won’t tell you
What the deep water knows
Darling, I’m saying
I know something’s wrong
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone

Even a fool could see
That you’ll soon be leaving me
But each and every heart
Must take its turn at misery

And this time it’s me
And I’ll cry alone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone

Even a fool could see
That you’ll soon be leaving me
But each and every heart
Must take its turn at misery

And this time it’s me
And I’ll cry alone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides Beneath Still Waters. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

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About Lyrics and Beneath Still Waters by Emmylou Harris

When you decide to study the lyrics to Beneath Still Waters, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to Beneath Still Waters 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 Beneath Still Waters 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 Beneath Still Waters" means the words set to the music of Beneath Still Waters, 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 Beneath Still Waters and the lyrics to Beneath Still Waters 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 Beneath Still Waters, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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