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For Someone Special

This version of For Someone Special was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1976.

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Well, I thought you’d be back on the track
But I guess I was wrong, man
For the look in your eyes was the same
Empty high that you’d shown
As I ran down the road I’d forgotten this load was upon you
So the band packed its bags and played on, goodbye
It’s been years since I cried
But this feeling inside really hurt me
And you know that we’re loyal
Through the years of hard toil we stood by
But our licks’ gotten better
I thought you could weather the good times
So I guess that it’s hard to leave
Bad times and downers behind

So it came down to sayin’
You haven’t been playin’ for so long
That our heads caked with rust
And the dust of a million sad sighs
In the mornings I’ve tried
To reach down inside
And push that nightmare away
Now I’m glad that it’s over, it’s over
Now I can play

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When you decide to study the lyrics to For Someone Special, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by The Doobie Brothers. Some of the lyrics to For Someone Special have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doobie Brothers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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