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Hands Across The Sea

This version of Hands Across The Sea was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1974.

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And there’ll be hands, hands across the sea
Touching everybody, joining you and me

If we could build a new horizon
I’d like to see some changes made
When nations hear the voice of reason
And all the world live unafraid

And there’ll be hands, hands across the sea
People joined as one, innocent and free
And we’ll have love, love and sympathy
Touching everybody, joining you and me

If we could share that new tomorrow
You with your troubles, me with mine
Then we could face the world together
With open heart and easy mind

And there’ll be hands, hands across the sea
People joined as one, innocent and free
And we’ll have love, love and sympathy
Touching everybody, joining you and me
Hands across the sea
Hands across the sea

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The lyrics to Hands Across The Sea are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Olivia Newton-John used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Hands Across The Sea have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Olivia Newton-John 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 Hands Across The Sea by Olivia Newton-John. 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 Hands Across The Sea" means the words set to the music of Hands Across The Sea, 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 Hands Across The Sea and the lyrics to Hands Across The Sea 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 Hands Across The Sea, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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