Lyrics to
Don’t Ever Leave Me

This version of Don’T Ever Leave Me was released by Barbra Streisand in 1973.

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Don’t ever leave me
Now that you’re here
Here is where you belong…
Everyth… er…

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About Lyrics and Don’T Ever Leave Me by Barbra Streisand

The lyrics for Don’T Ever Leave Me are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Barbra Streisand. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Don’T Ever Leave Me 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 Don’T Ever Leave Me - Barbra Streisand 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 Don’T Ever Leave Me by Barbra Streisand 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 Don’T Ever Leave Me" means the words set to the music of Don’T Ever Leave Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. 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 Ever Leave Me and the lyrics to Don’T Ever Leave Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Ever Leave Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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