Lyrics to
Heartbreak Road

This version of Heartbreak Road was released by Bill Withers in 1974.

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Wonder who is waiting for me
At the end of Heartbreak Road
Hope that she’ll be tender
Someone I can know.

Heartaches just don’t last forever
But it’s a lonely road
A road we all must travel
Once before we go.

I believe that love’s a good teacher
When you’re in it
And even if it don’t work out
You ain’t gone never understand it
‘Til you’re all down in it
And find out what it’s all about
But that’s all right because

Heartaches just don’t last forever
But it’s a lonely road
A road we all must travel
Once before we go.

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About Lyrics and Heartbreak Road by Bill Withers

The lyrics for Heartbreak Road are defined as the words making up the song released by Bill Withers in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Heartbreak Road have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Bill Withers and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Heartbreak Road by Bill Withers if you think through it. 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 Heartbreak Road" means the words set to the music of Heartbreak Road, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. 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 Heartbreak Road and the lyrics to Heartbreak Road are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Heartbreak Road, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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