Lyrics to
Heart Like A Wheel

This version of Heart Like A Wheel was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1974.

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Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can’t mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

When harm is done no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can’t understand oh please God hold my hand
Why it had to happen to me

And it’s only love and it’s only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can’t mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

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About Lyrics and Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

When you decide to study the lyrics to Heart Like A Wheel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Linda Ronstadt. Some of the lyrics to Heart Like A Wheel 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 Heart Like A Wheel 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 Heart Like A Wheel" means the words set to the music of Heart Like A Wheel, 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 Heart Like A Wheel and the lyrics to Heart Like A Wheel 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 Heart Like A Wheel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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