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Colors Of The Sun

This version of Colors Of The Sun was released by Jackson Browne in 1973.

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Colors of the sun
Flashing on the water top
Echo on the land

Picking for a coin
Many other tiny worlds
Singing past my hand

Awake to understand you are not dreaming
It is not seeming just to be this way
Dying men draw numbers in the air
Dream to conquer little bits of time
Scuffle with the crowd to get their share
And fall behind their little bits of time

Voices in the air
Sympathetic harmony
Coming from the trees

Hanging at my door
Many shiny surfaces
Clinging in the breeze

Oh, leave me where I am I am not losing
If I am choosing not to plan my life
Disillusioned saviors search the sky
Wanting to just to show someone the way
Asking all the people passing by
Doesn’t anybody want the way

I say goodbye to Joseph and Maria
They think I see another sky
And from my fallen window I still see them
I’ll never free them from the sky

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Jackson Browne has released many songs over the years besides Colors Of The Sun. Jackson Browne released songs from 1967 to 2002 spanning across albums like The Nina Music Demo (Songs By Jackson Browne), Jackson Browne, For Everyman, Late For The Sky, The Pretender, Running On Empty, Hold Out, Lawyers In Love, Lives In The Balance, World In Motion, I'm Alive, Looking East, and The Naked Ride Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson Browne.

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About Lyrics and Colors Of The Sun by Jackson Browne

The lyrics to Colors Of The Sun are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Jackson Browne in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to Colors Of The Sun are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Jackson Browne and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Colors Of The Sun back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Colors Of The Sun by Jackson Browne in a number of 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 Colors Of The Sun" means the words set to the music of Colors Of The Sun, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson Browne. 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 Colors Of The Sun and the lyrics to Colors Of The Sun are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson Browne who came here looking just for the lyrics to Colors Of The Sun, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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