Lyrics to
Down By The Seaside

This version of Down By The Seaside was released by Led Zeppelin in 1975.

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Down by the seaside. See the boats go sailin’
Can the people hear, What the little fish are sayin’

Oh, oh, the people turned away. Oh, the people turned away

Down in the city streets, see all the folk go racin’, racin’
No time left, to pass the time of day

The people turned away. The people turned away
So far away, so far away

See how they run, see how they run, see how they run, see how they run.

Do you still do the twist
Do you find you remember things that well
I wanna tell you… Some go twistin’ every day
though sometimes it’s awful hard to tell

Out in the country, hear the people singin’
Singin’ ’bout their progress, knowin’ where they’re goin’

Oh, oh, oh, oh, the people turned away
Yes, the people turned away

Sing loud for the sunshine, pray hard for the rain
And show your love for Lady Nature. And she will come back again
The people turned away
The people turned away

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The lyrics for Down By The Seaside are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Led Zeppelin. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Down By The Seaside 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 Down By The Seaside - Led Zeppelin 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 Down By The Seaside by Led Zeppelin 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 Down By The Seaside" means the words set to the music of Down By The Seaside, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Led Zeppelin. 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 Down By The Seaside and the lyrics to Down By The Seaside are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Led Zeppelin who came here looking just for the lyrics to Down By The Seaside, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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