Lyrics to
Don’t Forget Me

This version of Don’T Forget Me was released by Joe Cocker in 1974.

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The sun is going down across
The great unknown
Lights come on inside the towers made of stone
A muffled drum plays
Out of sight and all alone
Summer is over

The city lies awake
And breathes electric air
The sailor in the bar
Dreams of a love affair
Young girls seem to shimmer
In fluorescent glare
Summer is over

It’s a never ending show
Faces come and go
Like a river
You’re a rainbow
Wrapped in gray
Shake the dust away
Like a river

But don’t forget me
Don’t forget me now
Don’t forget me
Don’t forget me now

The crowd is spilling
From the video arcade
The owner of the restaurant
Pulls down the shade
The thunder of the trucks
Is like a cannonade
But now it’s over

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Joe Cocker has released many songs over the years besides Don’T Forget Me. Joe Cocker released songs from 1969 to 2007 spanning across albums like With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker!, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Joe Cocker, I Can Stand A Little Rain, Jamaica Say You Will, Stingray, Luxury You Can Afford, Sheffield Steel, Civilized Man, Cocker, Unchain My Heart, One Night Of Sin, Night Calls, Have A Little Faith, Organic, Across From Midnight, No Ordinary World, Respect Yourself, Heart & Soul, and Hymn For My Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Joe Cocker.

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About Lyrics and Don’T Forget Me by Joe Cocker

The lyrics to Don’T Forget Me are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Joe Cocker in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Don’T Forget Me are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Joe Cocker and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Don’T Forget Me back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Don’T Forget Me by Joe Cocker 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 Don’T Forget Me" means the words set to the music of Don’T Forget Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Cocker. 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 Forget Me and the lyrics to Don’T Forget Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Cocker who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Forget Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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