Lyrics to
Going In Circles

This version of Going In Circles was released by Three Dog Night in 1972.

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Going in circles, don’t really know
Where I have come from, where I will go
You say that you love me, and maybe you do
There’s nothing that matters or anything new

I’ve been through a million trips in the night
Living with shadows, looking for light
And passing the faces, how lonely they seem
Looking for traces of yesterdays dream

Going in circles, been here before
Never expected anything more
Might die tomorrow, I might go to Spain
Dumb to the sorrow, numb to the pain

Circles.
Going in circles.
Circles.

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About Lyrics and Going In Circles by Three Dog Night

The lyrics for Going In Circles are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Three Dog Night. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Going In Circles 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 In Circles - Three Dog Night 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 In Circles by Three Dog Night 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 In Circles" means the words set to the music of Going In Circles, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. 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 In Circles and the lyrics to Going In Circles are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to Going In Circles, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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