Lyrics to
I Never Meant To Hurt You

This version of I Never Meant To Hurt You was released by Barbra Streisand in 1971.

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I never meant to hurt you
I’m not that way at all
Please believe the words of the heart
A heart that seems so small
And I swear I never meant to hurt you
I guess I lost my place
Please, believe the wards of the heart
A heart that hides its fails
Why do I do things
I never mean to do?
Oh, why did I speak so carelessly
When all that I felt
Was love for you?
And I swear I never
I never meant to hurt you
I’ve got to make you know
Please, believe the words of the heart
A heart that didn’t show
I never meant to hurt you
I only meant to love you
It’s true
And when I saw you crying
I cried too…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I Never Meant To Hurt You, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to I Never Meant To Hurt You 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 Never Meant To Hurt You 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 Never Meant To Hurt You" means the words set to the music of I Never Meant To Hurt You, 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 Never Meant To Hurt You and the lyrics to I Never Meant To Hurt You 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 Never Meant To Hurt You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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