Lyrics to
Daytime

This version of Daytime was released by Cat Stevens in 1978.

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In the daytime time for celebration
No use looking down if it’s over here
It’s a world a new creation
And the golden light of the morning
Makes it easy to comb your hair
And the love of a child
It’s the time of the year

In the daytime you can move a mountain
With a blink of your eye
Now it’s over here now it’s over there
It’s a world with no complications
And the curtains on the window
Start blowing like your hair
And the love that I feel
Cause it’s the time of the year

Mysterious moon found me crying in the dark
Heard my footsteps on the stairs
Mysterious moon found me crying
But the sun dried my tears
Showed he cares

In the daytime time for celebration
No use looking down children open your eyes
It’s a world a whole nation
Now the white boats have landed
And the innocent are here
So dream for the child
Cause it’s the time of the year

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Cat Stevens has released many songs over the years besides Daytime. Cat Stevens released songs from 1967 to 1978 spanning across albums like New Masters, Matthew & Son, Tea For The Tillerman, Mona Bone Jakon, Teaser And The Firecat, Catch Bull At Four, Foreigner, Buddha And The Chocolate Box, Numbers, Izitso, and Back To Earth. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Cat Stevens.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Daytime, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Cat Stevens. Some of the lyrics to Daytime have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Cat Stevens and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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