Lyrics to
Cinderella Stay Awhile

This version of Cinderella Stay Awhile was released by Michael Jackson in 1975.

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Cinderella, stay awhile
You’re the one
That I’ve been lookin’ for
Cinderella, when you smile
All around me sunbeams
Start to fall

Midnight is so near
Please don’t disappear
Now that you are here
Stay awhile

Cinderella, I just know
That the magic slipper’s
Gonna to fit
Cinderella, do not go
You’re my princess
I am sure of it

This is love for sure
Love that’s sweet and pure
Love that will endure
Stay awhile

When you speak the angels all sing
This is the kind of magic you bring, oh

Cinderella, stay awhile
This is like a fairytale with you
Cinderella, when you smile
All my fairytales are coming true

Well my only fear
Is midnight is so near
Please don’t disappear
Stay awhile, oh

(Fairytales, make-believe and you)
(Fairytales, make-believe and you)

Cinderella, stay awhile
Don’t you go
Oh

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

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

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