Lyrics to
Fantasy Beginning

This version of Fantasy Beginning was released by Carole King in 1973.

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Looking for a way to say
The things I think about day by day
Listen to their meaning if you can
I may step outside myself
And speak as if I were someone else
That’s one way I know you’ll understand

In fantasy I can be black or white
A woman or a man

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Fantasy Beginning. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Fantasy Beginning by Carole King

When you decide to study the lyrics to Fantasy Beginning, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Carole King. Some of the lyrics to Fantasy Beginning have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carole King and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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