Lyrics to
Don’t Throw It All Away

This version of Don’T Throw It All Away was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1976.

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Here we go
Breaking up what we have built
Leaving out all the things that we have felt
Where was I, where was I before you came
From the first time that I saw you
I thought

Maybe I
Maybe I did something wrong
How I tried
But the words won’t fit the song
Found the door
But I could not find the key
From the first time that I saw you
I thought that you may be

So don’t throw it all away
I don’t wanna be the one who’s gonna have to beg you stay
I don’t wanna be the one to change your mind
One more time
Please stay
Don’t throw it all away

Though it seems
That I just take it out on you
Don’t you know
Only you can get me through
Found the door
Now I know that you’re the key
From the first time that I saw you
I knew that you may be

So don’t throw it all away
I don’t wanna be the one who’s gonna have to beg you stay
I don’t wanna be the one to change your mind
One more time
Please stay
Don’t throw it all away
Don’t throw it all away
Please stay

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

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