Lyrics to
Echoes In The Dark

This version of Echoes In The Dark was released by Uriah Heep in 1972.

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I have heard the echoes in the dark
Dim and distant voices of the past
And I’ve seen so far into the night
And lingered in the land of no light.

Far beyond the shrouded hours of dawn
Through the mist of daybreak I was born
But the day was clouded still by night
Leaving me in the land of no light.

Though I’d love to
Say hello to you
You might have to wait a while to say
Goodbye
For it must end as it began
And then start again.

The day of darkness comes to every man
And lingers while he reaches out his hand
And he cannot know how it will end
Till he finds out if he has a friend…
A friend…
A friend…
A friend.

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About Lyrics and Echoes In The Dark by Uriah Heep

When you decide to study the lyrics to Echoes In The Dark, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Uriah Heep. Some of the lyrics to Echoes In The Dark have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Uriah Heep and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Echoes In The Dark 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 Echoes In The Dark" means the words set to the music of Echoes In The Dark, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Uriah Heep. 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 Echoes In The Dark and the lyrics to Echoes In The Dark are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Uriah Heep who came here looking just for the lyrics to Echoes In The Dark, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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