Lyrics to
Carry Your Load

This version of Carry Your Load was released by Carole King in 1971.

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Meet me on the highway
Meet me on the road
As long as you’ve got to travel
Don’t you want someone to help you carry your load

First time out is a heady feeling
White clouds under my feet
Sailin’ along like a south wind
Over fields of whispering wheat
Thinkin’ alone on a Thursday morning
Of peace and love and war
I still don’t have any answer
But I don’t get high anymore

Meet me on the highway
Meet me on the road
As long as you’ve got to travel
Don’t you want someone to help you carry your load

Some folks are forever movin’
Some folks gotta be still
Don’t let it get you – there’s joy in either
So do what you will
Everyone knows it’s the same old feeling
Worlds below the sea
Just you and me and easy
Is where I want to be

Meet me on the highway
Meet me on the road
As long as you’ve got to travel
Don’t you want someone to help you carry your load

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About Lyrics and Carry Your Load by Carole King

The lyrics to Carry Your Load are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Carry Your Load have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carole King 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 Carry Your Load by Carole King. 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 Carry Your Load" means the words set to the music of Carry Your Load, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Carry Your Load and the lyrics to Carry Your Load are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Carry Your Load, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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