Lyrics to
Don’t Be Afraid

This version of Don’T Be Afraid was released by Boston in 1978.

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Now if you’re thinkin’ ’bout a love that left you
Thinkin’ you should hide away
Girl I think it’s wrong
You just try to be strong now babe
Listen to what I’ve got to say
I know the feelin’ that you feel today

But don’t be afraid of love

Tell you how I feel about you
Tell you what you want to hear
Tell you that it’s true
But it’s all up to you now babe
Don’t let your love disappear
Can’t believe that I’ll be stayin’ here

But don’t be afraid of love

Baby don’t you know good love is hard to find
Don’t you think I know what’s goin’ through your mind
One man left you cryin’ so you shut the door
Just let me inside that’s what my love is for

Tell you how I feel about you
Tell you what you want to hear
Tell you that it’s true
But it’s all up to you now babe
Don’t let your love disappear
Can’t believe that I’ll be stayin’ here

But don’t be afraid of love

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Boston has released many songs over the years besides Don’T Be Afraid. Boston released songs from 1976 to 2002 spanning across albums like Boston, Don't Look Back, Third Stage, Walk On, and Corporate America. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Boston.

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About Lyrics and Don’T Be Afraid by Boston

When you decide to study the lyrics to Don’T Be Afraid, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Boston. Some of the lyrics to Don’T Be Afraid have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Boston and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Don’T Be Afraid 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 Don’T Be Afraid" means the words set to the music of Don’T Be Afraid, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boston. 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 Don’T Be Afraid and the lyrics to Don’T Be Afraid are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boston who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Be Afraid, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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