Lyrics to
Change Is Gonna Come

This version of Change Is Gonna Come was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1978.

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There was a time I dreamed about money
Was a day I feared growing old
Many times have come
When I’m thinking ’bout you, honey
And if you leave me girl
I got nowhere to go

Cause I know, yes, I know
A change is gonna come someday

Do you remember a long, long time ago
You would follow me
All the time
And everywhere I go?

Now I find myself a pot of gold
Living on another name
And what I got to know
Is it still the same?

Cause I know, yes, I know
A change is gonna come someday

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

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