Lyrics to
Catch The Rainbow

This version of Catch The Rainbow was released by Rainbow in 1975.

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When evening falls
She’ll run to me
Like whispered dreams
Your eyes can’t see

Soft and warm
She’ll touch my face
A bed of straw
Against the lace

We believed we’d catch the rainbow
Ride the wind to the sun
Sail away on ships of wonder

But life’s not a wheel
With chains made of steel
So bless me

Come the dawn
Come the dawn
Come the dawn
Come the dawn

We believed we’d catch the rainbow
Ride the wind to the sun
And sail away on ships of wonder

But life’s not a wheel
With chains made of steel
So bless me, oh bless me, bless me

Come the dawn
Come the dawn
Come the dawn
Come the dawn

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About Lyrics and Catch The Rainbow by Rainbow

When you decide to study the lyrics to Catch The Rainbow, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Rainbow. Some of the lyrics to Catch The Rainbow have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rainbow and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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