Lyrics to
Earth Hymn

This version of Earth Hymn was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1974.

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Listen all around
Symphony of sound will take you
Drifting down through your dreams
In an endless stream

Singing through the air
On its wings of fiery silence
The melody comes crystal clear
Can you hear it near

Song of all the earth
Song of death and birth
Ringing through sea and sky
Can you hear the cry?

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Earth Hymn. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Earth Hymn by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Earth Hymn, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to Earth Hymn have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Earth Hymn 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 Earth Hymn" means the words set to the music of Earth Hymn, 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 Earth Hymn and the lyrics to Earth Hymn 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 Earth Hymn, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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