Lyrics to
Can We Pretend

This version of Can We Pretend was released by Bill Withers in 1974.

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Can we pretend
That from now on
There is no yesterday
Paint a portrait of tomorrow
With no colors from today

There’s a light that shine in your face sometimes
That takes my feeling wraps them around your need
But there’s shadow hiding in your heart sometimes
That makes my feelings turn back in on me

Can we pretend
The pain is gone
And go our merry way
Paint a portrait of tomorrow
With the colors bright and gay

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About Lyrics and Can We Pretend by Bill Withers

The lyrics to Can We Pretend are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bill Withers used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Can We Pretend have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bill Withers and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Can We Pretend by Bill Withers. 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 We Pretend" means the words set to the music of Can We Pretend, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. 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 We Pretend and the lyrics to Can We Pretend are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Can We Pretend, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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