Lyrics to
Flight Of The Phoenix

This version of Flight Of The Phoenix was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1972.

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About Lyrics and Flight Of The Phoenix by Grand Funk Railroad

When you decide to study the lyrics to Flight Of The Phoenix, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Some of the lyrics to Flight Of The Phoenix have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Grand Funk Railroad and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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