Lyrics to
Better Days Ahead

This version of Better Days Ahead was released by Gil Scott-Heron in 1978.

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And now it’s time
To gather all the things we need to fly
To better days ahead

Just wave goodbye
We’ve better things to do now, you and I
In better days ahead

Just take my hand
You’re one I need to understand
For better days ahead

With you I can stand
As long as you respect me as your man
There’s better days ahead
Yes, coming on

Just take my hand
You’re the one I need to understand
For better days ahead

With you I can stand
As long as you respect me as your man
There’s better days ahead
Yes, coming on

Coming on
Better days ahead
Coming on
For you and me

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Gil Scott-Heron has released many songs over the years besides Better Days Ahead. Gil Scott-Heron released songs from 1970 to 2005 spanning across albums like Small Talk At 125th And Lenox, Pieces Of A Man, Free Will, Winter In America, The First Minute Of A New Day, It's Your World, From South Africa To South Carolina, Bridges, Secrets, The Mind Of Gil Scott-Heron, 1980, Real Eyes, Reflections, Moving Target, Spirits, and Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Messages (Anthology). Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gil Scott-Heron.

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About Lyrics and Better Days Ahead by Gil Scott-Heron

The lyrics to Better Days Ahead are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Gil Scott-Heron in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Better Days Ahead are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Gil Scott-Heron and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Better Days Ahead back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Better Days Ahead by Gil Scott-Heron in a number of 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 Better Days Ahead" means the words set to the music of Better Days Ahead, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gil Scott-Heron. 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 Better Days Ahead and the lyrics to Better Days Ahead are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gil Scott-Heron who came here looking just for the lyrics to Better Days Ahead, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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