Lyrics to
Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup

This version of Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978.

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Sitting in a silent room
The walls around me screaming
Rely on nothing wait on no-one
Standing between light and dark
Watch the mirrors gleaming
Shine on nothing showing no-one

Drowning on dry land
Cast adrift on an empty sea
Drowning on dry land
Put aside with the will to be

Stranded at the break of dawn
And where the story’s ending
Tells of nothing hearing no-one
I stand without a word to say
The silent room is empty
Sings of nothing changing no-one

Drowning on dry land
Cast adrift on an empty sea
Drowning on dry land
Put aside with the will to be

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About Lyrics and Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup 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 Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup" means the words set to the music of Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup, 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 Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup and the lyrics to Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup 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 Drowning On Dry Land / Fish Soup, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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