Lyrics to
Faithful

This version of Faithful was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1971.

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You said loving you
And leaving you
Was the hardest thing to do
To give my foot
Another chance
To try another shoe
But every time I see someone
I’m always seeing you
No I have not always been faithful
I always have been true

Did you ever walk the empty street
Until the break of dawn
Just to hear some lonesome sparrow
Sing a lonesome song
Did it make you feel any better
Like a stranger left so low
Though you didn’t know you both had been
A thousand miles from home

And you said loving you
And leaving you
Was the hardest thing to do
To give my foot
Another chance
To try another shoe
But every time I see someone
I’m always seeing you
No I have not always been faithful
I always have been true
No I have not always been faithful
I always have been true

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About Lyrics and Faithful by Linda Ronstadt

When you decide to study the lyrics to Faithful, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Linda Ronstadt. Some of the lyrics to Faithful have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Linda Ronstadt and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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