Lyrics to
Going Back

This version of Going Back was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1970.

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I wanna go back to those sweet and simple days
Goin’ back to that cheerful little place
Goin’ back, back through time
Back through space, goin’ back

Do you remember when we had such fun
Playing all those happy games in the sun
We didn’t have too much to think about
All our problems had a way of working out

Skipping through the park and holding hands
We were building castles in the sand
Everything was rosy way back then
Oh, come on, let’s make it happen again

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Olivia Newton-John has released many songs over the years besides Going Back. Olivia Newton-John released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like Toomorrow, If Not For You, Olivia, Let Me Be There, Long Live Love, Have You Never Been Mellow, Clearly Love, Don't Stop Believin', Come On Over, Making A Good Thing Better, Totally Hot, Grease, Xanadu, Physical, Two Of A Kind, Soul Kiss, The Rumour, Warm And Tender, Gaia: One Woman's Journey, Back With A Heart, Sordid Lives, -2, Indigo: Women Of Song, Stronger Than Before, and Christmas Wish. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Olivia Newton-John.

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About Lyrics and Going Back by Olivia Newton-John

The lyrics for Going Back are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Olivia Newton-John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Going Back have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Going Back - Olivia Newton-John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Going Back by Olivia Newton-John in multiple ways. 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 Going Back" means the words set to the music of Going Back, 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 Going Back and the lyrics to Going Back 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 Going Back, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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