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Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga

This version of Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga was released by Barbra Streisand in 1976.

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Lascia ch’io painga
La cruda sorte
E che sospiri
La liberta!
Il duolo infranga
Queste ritorte
De’ miei martiri
Sol per pieta

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About Lyrics and Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga by Barbra Streisand

The lyrics for Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Barbra Streisand. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga 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 Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga - Barbra Streisand 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 Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga by Barbra Streisand 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 Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga" means the words set to the music of Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. 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 Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga and the lyrics to Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Handel: Lascia Ch’Io Pianga, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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