Lyrics to
Changes

This version of Changes was released by Carole King in 1978.

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With my limited vision
I don’t understand
Why anybody has to lose a friend
Everybody has to follow their heart
But it can hurt so bad
To see changes

I believed in something
I thought you did too
But I didn’t know what you were going through
How can people be so close, yet apart
There’s no wrong or right
It’s just changes

Once I experienced the other end
I lost a friend or two
Doing what was true for me
Even though I know that time will make it right
I miss the way things used to be

I’m only human
And I may never know
All the reasons why people come and go
I guess if we can love it all transcends
There’s enough to give
We’ve got our lives to live
Through changes

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Changes. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Changes by Carole King

The lyrics for Changes are defined as the words making up the song released by Carole King in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Changes have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Carole King and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Changes by Carole King if you think through it. 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 Changes" means the words set to the music of Changes, 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 Changes and the lyrics to Changes 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 Changes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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