Lyrics to
Circles

This version of Circles was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978.

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Going round in circles
Directions all messed up
I go to ground on a bottle of wine
And drown myself in the flood
My frozen toes are beginning to melt
I believe I’m catching a cold
Got oil on my feathers and I can’t fly
I gotta get back to your love

I’m a clown without a circus
There’s no-one to see my act
I can laugh and sing and stand on my head
Nobody knows where I’m at
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My days are long and lonely
And I feel so insecure
There ain’t nothing funny I’m losing you honey
I can’t laugh anymore
I can’t laugh anymore

Going round in circles
Directions all messed up
I go to ground on a bottle of wine
And drown myself in the flood
My frozen toes are beginning to melt
I believe I’m catching a cold
Got oil on my feathers and I can’t fly
I gotta get back to your love

Old Chang surely told me
Not to mess with what you’ve got
But I went stomping all over your head
Like a bull in a China shop
My days are long and lonely
And I feel so insecure
There ain’t nothing funny I’m losing you honey
I can’t laugh anymore
I can’t laugh anymore

I’m a clown without a circus
There’s no-one to see my act
I can laugh and sing and stand on my head
Nobody knows where I’m at

Going round in circles
Directions all messed up
I go to ground on a bottle of wine
Drowning myself in the flood

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About Lyrics and Circles by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Circles are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Circles have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Circles by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Circles" means the words set to the music of Circles, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth 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 Circles and the lyrics to Circles are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Circles, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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