Lyrics to
Hasten Down The Wind

This version of Hasten Down The Wind was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1976.

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She tells him she thinks she wants to be free
He tells her he doesn’t understand
She takes his hand
And tells him nothing’s working out the way she planned

She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
He’s hanging on to half a heart
But he can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind

Now he agrees he thinks she ought to be free
Now she says she’d rather be with him
Oh it’s just a whim
That she’s designed to keep him out there on that limb

She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
He hanging on to half a heart
But he can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind
He tells her to hasten down the wind
He tells her to hasten down the wind

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Hasten Down The Wind, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Linda Ronstadt. Some of the lyrics to Hasten Down The Wind have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Linda Ronstadt and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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