Lyrics to Fly - Decade Lyrics

This version of Fly was released by The Jam in 1978.

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The way that sunlight flits across your skirt,
makes me feel I’m from another world,
To touch your face in the morning light.
I hope you’re always gonna be around.
The times I struggle to understand why,
The ancient proverbs like Who am I?
Why am I here and What have I done?
I see the answer’s place my trust in you

Trust in you love, be with me then,
That’s when I want you, that’s when I need you the most.

I want us to be like Peter Pan
But dreams it seems are weightless as sand,
And man’s supposedly is made of sand
It seems that man cannot survive at all

Let’s disappear love, let’s fly away
Into the demi-monde, into the twilight zone
The times inside I spent screaming at you
Release me please from this mortal jail
One shrug or smile can determine my fate,
I’m lost for days and have myself to blame

Something I’m giving, is yours for the taking,
Something like sunlight, Love is a spotlight
Love is all sorrow, still I’ll meet you tomorrow
And look forward to see you, now I can’t live without you

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The Jam has released many songs over the years besides Fly. The Jam released songs from 1977 to 1992 spanning across albums like This Is The Modern World, In The City, All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Affects, Dig The New Breed, The Gift, and Extras. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Jam.

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About Lyrics and Fly by The Jam

The lyrics for Fly are defined as the words making up the song released by The Jam in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Fly have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Jam and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Fly by The Jam 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 Fly" means the words set to the music of Fly, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. 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 Fly and the lyrics to Fly are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fly, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.