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How My Soul Cries Out For You

This version of How My Soul Cries Out For You was released by Kansas in 1979.

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The night was cold, was deja-vu
I went on thinking we were too
How my soul cries out for you

To many places we once knew
To many faces, still no clue
How my soul cries out for you

I didn’t think I needed you when I got out on my own
Dead set on having my way I was convinced that
I was right and you were wrong
Then I started thinkin’ to myself
Well maybe what they say is true
How could we get so turned around when you needed me
As much as I needed you…

I tried to get you on the phone
No one answered, no one answered at home
I heard that you thought we were through
Somethin’ I had, somethin’ I had to do and
How my soul cries for you

How my soul cries out for you
It cries for love that we once knew
How my soul cries out for you

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The lyrics for How My Soul Cries Out For You are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Kansas. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to How My Soul Cries Out For You have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for How My Soul Cries Out For You - Kansas and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to How My Soul Cries Out For You by Kansas in multiple 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 How My Soul Cries Out For You" means the words set to the music of How My Soul Cries Out For You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kansas. 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 How My Soul Cries Out For You and the lyrics to How My Soul Cries Out For You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kansas who came here looking just for the lyrics to How My Soul Cries Out For You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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