Lyrics to
Feeling Sad Tonight

This version of Feeling Sad Tonight was released by Carole King in 1972.

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Feeling sad tonight
But everything’s allright
And we’ll find some other place to go
Feeling sad tonight
But everything’s allright
Let’s turn all our cares down low

Come on, let’s go downtown
It’s like a trip back to the past
Running down the bright night
Driving a little too fast
Oh, I’m counting on you
Sitting on a barstool
I’m a fool
Always feeling half-right and half-safe
Halfway dreaming of some safe place away from school
Oh, I’m counting on you
Silly sometimes
I’m a fool

Feeling sad tonight
But everything’s allright
And we’ll find some other place to go
Feeling sad tonight
But everything’s allright
Let’s turn all the lights and all our cares down low

There is a space between us
Which we cross
To touch each other softly
And so make up our loss
Some things take so long to learn
No matter how we try
Still we try and keep it open
And we get by

Feeling sad tonight
But everything’s allright
And we’ll find some other place to go
Feeling sad tonight

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Feeling Sad Tonight. 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 Feeling Sad Tonight by Carole King

The lyrics for Feeling Sad Tonight are defined as the words making up the song released by Carole King in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Feeling Sad Tonight have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Carole King and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Feeling Sad Tonight by Carole King if you think through it. 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 Feeling Sad Tonight" means the words set to the music of Feeling Sad Tonight, 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 Feeling Sad Tonight and the lyrics to Feeling Sad Tonight 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 Feeling Sad Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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