Lyrics to
Empty Arms, Empty Heart

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Now you say you’re leaving
Leaving me without a friend
How can you do what you’re doing to me
How can you say you want to be free of me

Now you say it’s over
And your walkin’ out my door
Tellin’ me you’re going away for good
Never coming back and i’ll never see you again

You left me here with my empty arms
My empty rooms
And my empty heart is crying

Nothing is left for me now you’re gone
It just ain’t right and i know it can’t last i’m dying

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Empty Arms, Empty Heart. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

About Lyrics and Empty Arms, Empty Heart by Nazareth

The lyrics for Empty Arms, Empty Heart are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Nazareth. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Empty Arms, Empty Heart 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 Empty Arms, Empty Heart - Nazareth 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 Empty Arms, Empty Heart by Nazareth 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 Empty Arms, Empty Heart" means the words set to the music of Empty Arms, Empty Heart, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Empty Arms, Empty Heart and the lyrics to Empty Arms, Empty Heart are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Empty Arms, Empty Heart, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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