Lyrics to
For All We Know

This version of For All We Know was released by The Carpenters in 1971.

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Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
We’ve got a lifetime to share
So much to say
And as we go
From day to day
I’ll feel you close to me
But time alone will tell
Let’s take a lifetime to say
“I knew you well”
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know.

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
Let’s take a lifetime to say
“I knew you well”
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow

For all we know.

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The Carpenters has released many songs over the years besides For All We Know. The Carpenters released songs from 1969 to 1989 spanning across albums like Ticket To Ride, Close To You, Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage, Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, and Lovelines. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Carpenters.

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About Lyrics and For All We Know by The Carpenters

The lyrics to For All We Know are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Carpenters used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to For All We Know have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Carpenters 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 For All We Know by The Carpenters. 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 For All We Know" means the words set to the music of For All We Know, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 For All We Know and the lyrics to For All We Know are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to For All We Know, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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