Lyrics to
Fancy Colours

Released by Chicago in 1970
From the Album: Chicago (Chicago Ii) |

This version of Fancy Colours was released by Chicago in 1970.

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Going where the orange sun has never died
And your swirling marble eyes shine
Laughing
Burning through the light
Bittersweet the drops of life
Memories only fading
Fancy Colours
Fancy Colours
All we ever did see
When we’re down at the sea
We see things so very bright at the sea
Fancy Colours
Fancy Colours
All we ever can do
The morning covered with dew
We do things so very fine at the dew
Fancy Colours
Fancy Colours
All we ever do hear
The world whether we’re hear or there
We hear things so very fine when we’re there


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About Lyrics and Fancy Colours by Chicago

When you decide to study the lyrics to Fancy Colours, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to Fancy Colours have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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