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Darkness ‘Til Dawn

Released by Carly Simon in 1976
From the Album: Another Passenger |

This version of Darkness ‘Til Dawn was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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Chain smoking cigarettes
Enemies across the table
Wonderin’ if I can ever trust anyone again
We argue through the night
the restaurant shuts, you catch your flight
I hail a cab with no idea where home might be

We both believed my chance was gone
But ain’t it strange how life goes on
A storm can never rage forever
And darkness only lasts ’til dawn

Hotel blinds stay down
Nothing seems to make me care
I can’t find a reason to comb my hair
Folks walkin’ in the street
Everyone has something to do
My brain won’t stop showin’ those old movies of you

Weeks pass,
And your voice sounds strange on the telephone
Strange how smooth and casual my own voice sounds
I find that I’m listening to
A tuen coming over my radio
It makes me think of a guy I knew a while ago
A while ago a while ago


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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Darkness ‘Til Dawn. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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The lyrics to Darkness ‘Til Dawn are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carly Simon in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Darkness ‘Til Dawn are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carly Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Darkness ‘Til Dawn back when it was created.

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

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