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I Had The Love In My Eyes

This version of I Had The Love In My Eyes was released by Chris De Burgh in 1979.

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Show me a man secure in his love,
And I’ll show you a lucky man;
I loved her too well and I just couldn’t tell,
She was holding another hand,
And when she said that she would leave in the morning,
I broke down and cried,

‘Cos I had the love in my eyes, I just didn’t see it,
Such a surprise, I just don’t believe it,
Somebody took her away, oh I was blind,
I had the love in my eyes…

Day after day, in so many ways,
I gave her the best of me,
But she wanted more, and she opened the door,
Well I hope that you find what you need;
And all the time I thought that she was beside me,
She was drifting away,

But I had the love in my eyes, I just didn’t see it,
Such a surprise, I just don’t believe it,
Somebody took her away, oh I was blind,
I had the love in my eyes,
I had the love in my eyes…

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You can understand the lyrics to I Had The Love In My Eyes 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 I Had The Love In My Eyes" means the words set to the music of I Had The Love In My Eyes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. 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 I Had The Love In My Eyes and the lyrics to I Had The Love In My Eyes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Had The Love In My Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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