Lyrics to
Fly Away

This version of Fly Away was released by John Denver in 1975.

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All of her days have gone soft and cloudy, all of her dreams have gone dry.
All of her nights have gone sad and shady, She’s getting ready to fly.
Fly away, fly away, fly away.

Life in the city can make you crazy for sounds of the sand and the sea.
Life in a high-rise can make you hungry for things that you can’t even see.
Fly away, fly away, fly away.

In this whole world there’s nobody as lonely as she,
there’s nowhere to go and there’s nowhere that she’d rather be.
She’s looking for lovers and children playing, she’s looking for signs of the spring.
She listens for laughter and sounds of dancing, she listens for any old thing.
Fly away, fly away, fly away .

In this whole world there’s nobody as lonely as she,
there’s nowhere to go and there’s nowhere that she’d rather be.
All of her days have gone soft and cloudy, all of her dreams have gone dry.
All of her nights have gone sad and shady, She’s getting ready to fly.
Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.

Where are my days, where are my nights? Where is the Spring? I wanna fly, I wanna fly:

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About Lyrics and Fly Away by John Denver

The lyrics to Fly Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Denver used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Fly Away have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Denver and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Fly Away by John Denver. 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 Away" means the words set to the music of Fly Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Away and the lyrics to Fly Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fly Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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