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Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)

This version of Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future) was released by Elton John in 1975.

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Can you tell me how old Dan might have done it
If he’d been here now, holy cow
My stars might have been read on the planet Mars
Because I don’t have foresight to see
If we still be together in the twenty first
In the twenty first century

He’s our flying ace, pilot of the future
In an endless space, holy cow
My eyes never saw a rocket that was quite that size
Because I don’t have the energy
To be cat and mouse for the champions
For the champions of destiny

So long captain Dan
I fail to see what motivates your hands
Goodbye restless night
You know I loved Dan Dare, but I couldn’t make his flight
So long, so long

Dan Dare doesn’t know it
He doesn’t know it
He doesn’t know it
But I liked the Meko

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

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