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Called Her Name

This version of Called Her Name was released by Nazareth in 1972.

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Called her name but the wind blew strong,
I called in vain though I tried so long,
Called the sea to bring her home,
But the sea don’t hear and I’m still alone
I feel an emptiness inside
Something within me I can’t hide

Standing here looking at the sky,
But the light I see can’t tell me why,
I feel an emptiness inside,
Something within me I can’t hide.

Everytime I stop to think
That’s the time I get lonely
That’s the time it hurts the most
Everytime I get lonely.

What went wrong, who am I to blame,
Did I take too long, to call her name,

I feel an emptiness inside
Something within me I can’t hide.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Called Her Name, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Called Her Name have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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