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Dearest Esmerelda

This version of Dearest Esmerelda was released by John Denver in 1977.

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Dearest Esmerelda, in another age, antiques would be modern, and we would be the rage.
Silk would be in fashion, we would dress in lace.
Love would be the passion and the saving grace.
I slept one rainy night with you in Paris, made up for a thousand wasted years.
Dearest Esmerelda, you are magic, I close my eyes and you make love appear.

Dancing in the shimmer of a crystal chandelier. Shadows singing so low, only we could hear.
Moving to the glimmer, shaking to the storm, outside it was raging but inside it was warm.
We said goodnight in the candlelight and thunder, now I wake and find you’re never there.
I’m becoming old enough to wonder, happy that I’m still too young to care.

Masterpieces crumble, empires tumble down. Refugees and fantasies go underground.
Romance lasts forever, love don’t fade away.
They may take our future but they can’t stop yesterday.
Cause somewhere in the cloudy skies of Paris, we were part of some artist’s design.
Dearest Esmerelda, you are magic. In the gray around me how you shine, oh, how you shine.

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About Lyrics and Dearest Esmerelda by John Denver

The lyrics for Dearest Esmerelda are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by John Denver. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Dearest Esmerelda 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 Dearest Esmerelda - John Denver 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 Dearest Esmerelda by John Denver 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 Dearest Esmerelda" means the words set to the music of Dearest Esmerelda, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Dearest Esmerelda and the lyrics to Dearest Esmerelda are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dearest Esmerelda, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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