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Clear As The Driven Snow

Released by The Doobie Brothers in 1973
From the Album: The Captain And Me |

This version of Clear As The Driven Snow was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1973.

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Playin’ easy somewhere, shade across my mind
Thoughts that pass I cannot catch, I reach for you and find
That I have learned how not to get burned now
Wind in the tree blows, even the sea knows
That I have learned how, think I can see now
Lookin’ through dreams is not what it seems
They handed me the bottle and said drink it ’til it’s gone
But now that it’s half empty I’m not sure I can go on
Thought I had learned how not to get burned now
Wind in the tree blows, even the sea knows
That I have learned how, think I can see now
Lookin’ through dreams…

I keep rollin’, I keep rollin’
I keep rollin’ and I can’t stop
Rollin’ and I can’t stop
It’s drivin’ me out of my mind
To the truck stop, to the plane hop
To the boat dock and I’m so close
Boat dock and I’m so close
Give me a little more time

Spin me around, turn my head down
Take me down slow, don’t let me go
Spin me around, turn my head down
Take me down slow, don’t let me go
Gonna quit you, gonna quit you
Gonna quit you, pretty mama
Quit you, hey mama
You know that I ain’t got time
Get behind me, get behind me
Get behind me, now bad times
Oh, bad times
There’s nothin’ in there you can hide
Spin me around, turn my head down
Take me down slow, don’t let me go
Spin me around, turn my head down
Take me down slow, don’t let…


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Clear As The Driven Snow, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by The Doobie Brothers. Some of the lyrics to Clear As The Driven Snow have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doobie Brothers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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