Lyrics to
Don’t Kill It Carol

This version of Don’T Kill It Carol was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1979.

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This wild rose that I hold in my hand
It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen,
One bud only just started to show,
And the leaves are the lightest green.
It’s had it’s share of the rain,
It needs some feeling to light it’s fiery flame again,
But one cruel lie and it could die.

(Don’t kill it Carol)
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.

This wild rose that I hold in my hand,
It could grow to be so strong,
Born one night in the calm of the storm,
It was made for a rock and roll song.
It’s only just seen the light,
It could so easily fall back to the gentle night,
But one cruel lie and it could die.

(Don’t kill it Carol)
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.

It’s looking for a place to live outside all space and time,
Where there’s no need for it to fade.
There’s a secret garden that I think we can find,
Lot’s of sunshine there’s a touch of shade.

(Don’t kill it Carol)

This wild rose that I hold in my hand
It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen,
One bud only just started to show,
And the leaves are the lightest green.
It’s had it’s share of the rain,
It needs some feeling to light it’s fiery flame again,
But one cruel lie and it could die.

(Don’t kill it Carol)
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.
Oh Carol oh, won’t you let this flower grow,
Don’t kill it Carol.

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Don’T Kill It Carol. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Don’T Kill It Carol by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics to Don’T Kill It Carol are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Manfred Mann's Earth Band used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Don’T Kill It Carol have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Don’T Kill It Carol by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Kill It Carol" means the words set to the music of Don’T Kill It Carol, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Kill It Carol and the lyrics to Don’T Kill It Carol are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Kill It Carol, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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