Lyrics to
Drowned

This version of Drowned was released by The Who in 1973.

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There are men high up there fishing,
Haven’t seen quite enough of the world,
I ain’t seen a sign of my heroes,
And I’m still diving down for pearls.

Let me flow into the ocean,
Let me get back to the sea.
Let me be stormy and let me be calm,
Let the tide in, and set me free.

I’m flowing under bridges,
Then flying through the sky,
I’m travelling down cold metal
Just a tear in baby’s eye.

Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, rush over me.

I am not the actor
This can’t be the scene
But I am in the water,
As far as I can see…

I’m remembering distant memories
Recalling other names.
Rippling over canyons,
And boiling in the train.

Let me

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The Who has released many songs over the years besides Drowned. The Who released songs from 1965 to 1982 spanning across albums like The Who Sings My Generation, A Quick One / Happy Jack, The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, The Who By Numbers, Who Are You, Face Dances, and It's Hard. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Who.

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About Lyrics and Drowned by The Who

The lyrics for Drowned are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by The Who. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Drowned 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 Drowned - The Who 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 Drowned by The Who 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 Drowned" means the words set to the music of Drowned, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Who. 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 Drowned and the lyrics to Drowned are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Who who came here looking just for the lyrics to Drowned, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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