Lyrics to
I Just Want To See His Face

This version of I Just Want To See His Face was released by The Rolling Stones in 1972.

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That’s all right, that’s all right, that’s all right.
Sometimes you feel like trouble, sometimes you feel down.
Let this music relax you mind, let this music relax you mind.
Stand up and be counted, can’t get a witness.
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to love.
Sometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to love.
Then you don’t want to walk and talk about Jesus,
You just want to see His face.
You don’t want to walk and talk about Jesus,
You just want to see His face.

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About Lyrics and I Just Want To See His Face by The Rolling Stones

The lyrics to I Just Want To See His Face are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Rolling Stones used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to I Just Want To See His Face have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Rolling Stones and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to I Just Want To See His Face by The Rolling Stones. 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 Just Want To See His Face" means the words set to the music of I Just Want To See His Face, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Rolling Stones. 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 Just Want To See His Face and the lyrics to I Just Want To See His Face are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Rolling Stones who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Just Want To See His Face, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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