Lyrics to
Crying Time

This version of Crying Time was released by Barbra Streisand in 1974.

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Oh it’s crying time again
You’re gonna leave me
I can see that faraway look in your eyes
I can tell by the way you hold me, darling
That it won’t be long
Before it’s crying time
Oh they say that absence makes
The heart grow fonder
(Fonder)
And that tears are on their way
To make love grow
(Grow)
Well, my love for you could never,
Never, never, never grow no stronger
(Stronger)
If I live to be a hundred,
And I say a hundred years old
Oh you say that you’ve found someone
You love better
That’s the way it’s happened
Every time before
(Before)
And as sure as the sun comes out tomorrow
(Tomorrow)
Crying time will start
When you walk out
When you walk out my door
Oh it’s crying time again
You’re gonna leave me
(I can feel it now)
I can see that faraway look in your eyes
(I can feel it now)
(I can see it baby in your eyes)
I can tell by way you hold me, darling
That it won’t be long before it’s crying time
No it won’t be long before it’s crying time!

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About Lyrics and Crying Time by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to Crying Time, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Crying Time have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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