Lyrics to
Dawning Is The Day

This version of Dawning Is The Day was released by Moody Blues in 1970.

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Rise, let us see you,
Dawning is the day,
Miss, misty meadow,
You will find your way,
Wake up in the morning to yourself and leave this crazy life behind you.
Listen, we’re trying to find you.

Flow to the sea,
You know where to go,
Still we are free,
No one tells the wind which way to blow.
Wake up in the morning to yourself,
Open your eyes and start to be you.
Listen, we think we can see you.
Baby there’s no price upon your head,
Sing it, shout it.
Now the angry words have all been said.
Do it, don’t doubt it.

So rise, let us see you,
Dawning is the day,
Miss, misty meadow,
You will find your way,
Wake up in the morning to yourself, open your head and look around you.
Listen, we think we have found you.

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Moody Blues has released many songs over the years besides Dawning Is The Day. Moody Blues released songs from 1965 to 1999 spanning across albums like The Magnificient Moodies, Days Of Future Passed, In Search Of The Lost Chord, On The Threshold Of A Dream, To Our Childrens Childrens Children, A Question Of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Seventh Sojourn, Octave, Long Distance Voyager, The Present, The Other Side Of Life, Prelude, Sur La Mer, Keys Of The Kingdom, and Strange Times. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Moody Blues.

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The lyrics to Dawning Is The Day are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Moody Blues used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Dawning Is The Day have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Moody Blues and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Dawning Is The Day by Moody Blues. 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 Dawning Is The Day" means the words set to the music of Dawning Is The Day, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Moody Blues. 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 Dawning Is The Day and the lyrics to Dawning Is The Day are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Moody Blues who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dawning Is The Day, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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