Lyrics to
Free The People

This version of Free The People was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1974.

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Free the people from the fire
Pull the boat out of the raging sea
Tell the Devil he’s a liar
Come and save the likes of me

Saw your light from the street
As I passed by the other day
I was scared, my knees were weak
Forgot what I had come to say

Free the people from the fire
Pull the boat out of the raging sea
Tell the Devil he’s a liar
Come and save the likes of me

Saw a man walk on water
Everybody looking on
I didn’t know I was His daughter
Till both of us had come and gone

Free the people from the fire
Pull the boat out of the raging sea
Tell the Devil he’s a liar
Come and save the likes of me

If you see me in the valley
Looking like I don’t belong
You can put me in your greenest valley
I’ll still be singing this same old song

Free the people from the fire
Pull the boat out of the raging sea
Tell the Devil he’s a liar
Come and save the likes of me

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About Lyrics and Free The People by Olivia Newton-John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Free The People, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Olivia Newton-John. Some of the lyrics to Free The People have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Olivia Newton-John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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