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Can I Tell You

This version of Can I Tell You was released by Kansas in 1974.

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Can I tell you something
Got to tell you one thing
If you expect the freedom
That you say is yours
Prove that you deserve it
Help us to preserve it
Or being free will just be
Words and nothing more

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Kansas has released many songs over the years besides Can I Tell You. Kansas released songs from 1974 to 2000 spanning across albums like Kansas, Masque, Song For America, Leftoverture, Point Of Know Return, Monolith, Audio-Visions, Vinyl Confessions, Drastic Measures, Power, In The Spirit Of Things, Freaks Of Nature, Always Never The Same, and Somewhere To Elsewhere. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Kansas.

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The lyrics to Can I Tell You are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Kansas in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Can I Tell You are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Kansas and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Can I Tell You back when it was created.

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

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