Lyrics to
Hidden Treasure

This version of Hidden Treasure was released by Traffic in 1971.

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Take a walk down by, take a walk down by the river
There’s a lot that you, there’s a lot that you can learn
If you’ve got a mind that’s open, if you’ve got a heart that yearns

If you listen to, if you listen to the water
You will hear the sound, you will hear the sound of life

There’s a million different voices, there is happiness and strife

Message in the deep, from a strange eternal sleep
That is waiting there, that is waiting there for you
Like hidden treasure

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About Lyrics and Hidden Treasure by Traffic

The lyrics for Hidden Treasure are defined as the words making up the song released by Traffic in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Hidden Treasure have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Traffic 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 Hidden Treasure by Traffic 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 Hidden Treasure" means the words set to the music of Hidden Treasure, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Traffic. 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 Hidden Treasure and the lyrics to Hidden Treasure are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Traffic who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hidden Treasure, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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