Lyrics to
Dear Friend

This version of Dear Friend was released by Paul Mccartney in 1971.

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Dear friend, what’s the time?
Is this really the borderline?
Does it really mean so much to you?
Are you afraid, or is it true?

Dear friend, throw the wine,
I’m in love with a friend of mine.
Really truly, young and newly wed.
Are you a fool, or is it true?

Are you afraid, or is it true?

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Paul Mccartney has released many songs over the years besides Dear Friend. Paul Mccartney released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like McCartney, Ram, Wild Life, Band On The Run, Red Rose Speedway, Venus And Mars, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, London Town, Back To The Egg, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes Of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play, CHOBA B CCCP (Back In The USSR), Flowers In The Dirt, Tripping The Live Fantastic, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Off The Ground, Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run, Driving Rain, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, and Memory Almost Full. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Paul Mccartney.

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About Lyrics and Dear Friend by Paul Mccartney

The lyrics to Dear Friend are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Paul Mccartney in 1971. Elements of the lyrics to Dear Friend are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Paul Mccartney and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Dear Friend back when it was created.

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

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