Lyrics to
Dear Friends

This version of Dear Friends was released by Queen in 1974.

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So dear friends your love has gone
Only tears to dwell upon
I dare not say as the wind must blow
So a love is lost, a love is won

Go to sleep and dream again
Soon your hopes will rise and then
From all this gloom life can start anew
And there’ll be no crying soon

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Queen has released many songs over the years besides Dear Friends. Queen released songs from 1973 to 1995 spanning across albums like Queen, Sheer Heart Attack, Queen II, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, News Of The World, Jazz, The Game, Hot Space, The Works, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo, and Made In Heaven. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Queen.

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About Lyrics and Dear Friends by Queen

The lyrics to Dear Friends are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Queen in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Dear Friends are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Queen and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Dear Friends 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 Friends by Queen 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 Friends" means the words set to the music of Dear Friends, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Friends and the lyrics to Dear Friends are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dear Friends, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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