Lyrics to
Dear John

This version of Dear John was released by Nazareth in 1971.

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You came ’round today
You never even knocked on my door
Your note tried to say
That you don’t love me no more

I want you by my side cause
I wanna be your man
I’m burning up inside cause
I wanna be your man

I had to be told
From people that i meet in the street
They are turning cold
Without you i would not be complete

Why did you write me in a letter
A word from you would be much better

Don’t cast me aside
Without you i could never survive
Why did you decide
To kill the love that keeps me alive

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Dear John. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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About Lyrics and Dear John by Nazareth

The lyrics for Dear John are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Nazareth. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Dear John have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Dear John - Nazareth and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Dear John by Nazareth in multiple 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 John" means the words set to the music of Dear John, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 John and the lyrics to Dear John are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dear John, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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