Lyrics to
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

This version of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do was released by The Carpenters in 1976.

Our About The Carpenters page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Breaking Up Is Hard To Do from 1976 as well as all of the other lyrics from The Carpenters that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to The Carpenters or about the 1970s in general.

Don’t take your love
Away from me
Don’t you leave my heart
In misery
If you go
Then I’ll be blue
Cause breakin’ up is hard to do

Remember when
You held me tight
And you kissed me
All through the night
Think of all
That we been through
Breakin’ up is hard to do

They say that breakin’ up
Is hard to do
Now I know, I know
That it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breakin’ up
I wish that we were makin’ up again

I beg of you
Don’t say good-bye
Can’t we give our love
Another try
Come on baby
Lets start a new
Breakin’ up is hard to do

I beg of you
Don’t say good-bye
Can’t we give our love
Another try
Come on baby
Lets start a new
Breakin’ up is hard to do
Breakin’ up is hard to do

---

Want more lyrics and songs by The Carpenters?

The Carpenters has released many songs over the years besides Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. The Carpenters released songs from 1969 to 1989 spanning across albums like Ticket To Ride, Close To You, Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage, Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, and Lovelines. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Carpenters.

If you're a fan of popular 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by The Carpenters

The lyrics for Breaking Up Is Hard To Do are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by The Carpenters. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 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 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - The Carpenters 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 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by The Carpenters 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 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" means the words set to the music of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do and the lyrics to Breaking Up Is Hard To Do are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by The Carpenters

Visit our The Carpenters profile for more The Carpenters songs, lyrics & info!

)