Lyrics to
I Mean To Shine

This version of I Mean To Shine was released by Barbra Streisand in 1971.

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Here comes another dawn
For every child to see
This time the morning sun
Is burning just for me
I’ve got the skyward eyes
Like I’ve never had before
Just smile and say goodbye
Show me to the door
For every one there comes a precious time
To break away
I mean to shine
Oh, I mean to shine
As I look at all the morning sun
I know I mean to shine
This day I realized
The world I knew is gone
New seasons come and change
The crown that stood upon
I’ve been afraid to feel
And scared of falling free
You said so I’m real
It seemed so clear to me
For everyone who breathes
There comes a time to fly away
I mean to shine
0h, I mean to shine
As I look at all the morning sun
I know I mean to shine
For everyone who breathes
There comes a time
To break away
I mean to shine
Oh, I mean to shine
As I look at all morning sun
I know I mean to shine.

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About Lyrics and I Mean To Shine by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to I Mean To Shine, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to I Mean To Shine have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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