Lyrics to
Downtown Sundown

This version of Downtown Sundown was released by Thin Lizzy in 1977.

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If you want your freedom
There is nothing planned
If you really need him
I will understand

Please believe in love
I believe there is a God above
For love
And He’s coming, yes He’s coming

If you want to fly
Then fly away
All the cloudy skies
Belong to yesterday

Please believe in love
I believe there is a God above
For love
And He’s coming, yes He’s coming

In the shadows the swallow dies
No one knows the hobo hides
There is no need to apologize
This is the story of a downtown sundown

If you climb the mountain
You will see
There is no great distance
Between the Lord and me

Please believe in love
I believe there is a God above
For love
And He’s coming, yes He’s coming

In the shadows a swallow dies
No one knows the hobo hides
There is no need to apologize
This is the story of a downtown sundown

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About Lyrics and Downtown Sundown by Thin Lizzy

The lyrics for Downtown Sundown are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Thin Lizzy. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Downtown Sundown 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 Downtown Sundown - Thin Lizzy 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 Downtown Sundown by Thin Lizzy 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 Downtown Sundown" means the words set to the music of Downtown Sundown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Downtown Sundown and the lyrics to Downtown Sundown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Downtown Sundown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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