Lyrics to
Give One Heart

This version of Give One Heart was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1976.

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Love I am told is the deepest mystery
Harder to fathom than any sea
More precious than all the earth and sky
But nobody can tell you why

Give one heart
Get back two
That’s the paradox of I love you
So when you give your heart
You get one too
That’s the paradox of I love you

If it is love for which you’ve cried
You know how it feels on moon’s dark side
If your baby love’s you right
You can have skyrockets any old night

Give one heart
Get back two
That’s the paradox of I love you
So when you give your heart
You get one too
That’s the paradox of I love you

And you can’t stop saying it
I love you
Can’t stop saying it
I love you
Keep on saying it saying it
I won’t stop until you say it too

Love can be gentle soft and tame
Or so rough you wouldn’t know its name
Shy and wild like a runaway child
Storms of love always end up mild

Give one heart
Get back two
That’s the paradox of I love you
So when you give your heart
You get one too
That’s the paradox of I love you

Give your heart
Get back two
That’s the paradox of I love you
So when you give your heart
Get one too
That’s the paradox of I love you

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Linda Ronstadt has released many songs over the years besides Give One Heart. Linda Ronstadt released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Hand Sown... Home Grown, Silk Purse, Linda Ronstadt, Don't Cry Now, Heart Like A Wheel, Prisoner In Disguise, Hasten Down The Wind, Simple Dreams, Living In The USA, Mad Love, Get Closer, What's New, Lush Life, For Sentimental Reasons, Canciones De Mi Padre, Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, Mas Canciones, Frenesi, Winter Light, Feels Like Home, Dedicated To The One I Love, We Ran, and Hummin' To Myself. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Linda Ronstadt.

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About Lyrics and Give One Heart by Linda Ronstadt

The lyrics to Give One Heart are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Linda Ronstadt used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Give One Heart have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Linda Ronstadt 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 Give One Heart by Linda Ronstadt. 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 Give One Heart" means the words set to the music of Give One Heart, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Linda Ronstadt. 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 Give One Heart and the lyrics to Give One Heart are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Linda Ronstadt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Give One Heart, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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