Lyrics to
Colorado

This version of Colorado was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1973.

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Hey Colorado
It was not so long ago
I left your mountains to try life on the road
But I’m tired of that race
It was much too fast a pace
And I think I’ve found my place
Colorado, I want to come home

I had a man there but I left him far behind
I could have loved him if I’d only had the time
Ah but I stopped along my way
Just long enough to say
That I’d really like to stay
But my baby
You know I have to go

I was too young
To know what I’d done
I made my plans
But I was wrong
Yes I was wrong

Colorado
Is it too late to change my mind
I’ve done some thinking
And I’m trying hard to find
A way to come back home
Cause I’ve been so very long alone
Won’t you take care of your own
Colorado
I think I’m coming home
I want to come home
Let me come home

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Linda Ronstadt has released many songs over the years besides Colorado. Linda Ronstadt released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Hand Sown... Home Grown, Silk Purse, Linda Ronstadt, Don't Cry Now, Heart Like A Wheel, Prisoner In Disguise, Hasten Down The Wind, Simple Dreams, Living In The USA, Mad Love, Get Closer, What's New, Lush Life, For Sentimental Reasons, Canciones De Mi Padre, Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, Mas Canciones, Frenesi, Winter Light, Feels Like Home, Dedicated To The One I Love, We Ran, and Hummin' To Myself. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Linda Ronstadt.

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About Lyrics and Colorado by Linda Ronstadt

The lyrics for Colorado are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Linda Ronstadt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Colorado have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Colorado - Linda Ronstadt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Colorado by Linda Ronstadt in multiple ways. 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 Colorado" means the words set to the music of Colorado, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Linda Ronstadt. 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 Colorado and the lyrics to Colorado are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Linda Ronstadt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Colorado, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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