Lyrics to
Half A Chance

This version of Half A Chance was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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You said we’d light the firmament
You said our love was permanent
You said we’d stick through thick and thin
Through up and down, through lose and win
But comes the first sign of stormy weather
You’re packin’ your bags in the trance
But you gotta give

Half a chance
Half a chance
Half a chance
To our romance

you can’t pretend it’s Camelot
Then start to run when things get hot
When love explodes there’s always heat
There’s always bitter with the sweet
There’s always times when your legs feel broken
But you still don’t drop out of the dance
You gotta give

Half a chance
Half a chance
Half a chance
To our romance

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About Lyrics and Half A Chance by Carly Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Half A Chance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Carly Simon. Some of the lyrics to Half A Chance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carly Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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