Lyrics to
Help Me Make It Through The Night

This version of Help Me Make It Through The Night was released by Willie Nelson in 1972.

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Take the ribbons from your hair shake ’em loose and let ’em fall
Let ’em fall against your chin like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I’m taking is your time help me make it through the night
Well I don’t care who’s right or wrong and I won’t try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight
And it’s sad to be alone help me make it through the night

Well I don’t care who’s right or wrong…
I can’t stand to be alone help me make it through the night

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Willie Nelson has released many songs over the years besides Help Me Make It Through The Night. Willie Nelson released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like And Then I Wrote, Here's Willie Nelson, Country Willie - His Own Songs, Country Favorites - Willie Nelson Style, The Party's Over And Other Great Willie Nelson Songs, Make Way For Willie Nelson, Good Times, My Own Peculiar Way, Both Sides Now, Laying My Burdens Down, Yesterday's Wine, Willie Nelson And Family, The Words Don't Fit The Picture, The Willie Way, Shotgun Willie, and Countryman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Willie Nelson.

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About Lyrics and Help Me Make It Through The Night by Willie Nelson

The lyrics to Help Me Make It Through The Night are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Willie Nelson in 1972. Elements of the lyrics to Help Me Make It Through The Night are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Willie Nelson and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Help Me Make It Through The Night back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Help Me Make It Through The Night by Willie Nelson in a number of 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 Help Me Make It Through The Night" means the words set to the music of Help Me Make It Through The Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 Help Me Make It Through The Night and the lyrics to Help Me Make It Through The Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to Help Me Make It Through The Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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