Lyrics to
I Want To Be What You Need

This version of I Want To Be What You Need was released by Dolly Parton in 1975.

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Mhm when you’re not strong and need someone to lean on
Let me be your strenght when you’re weak
When you need somebody to comfort and love you let mine be the arms that you seek

I want to be what you need whatever it is come to me
You’ll always know where I’ll be cause I want to be what you need
When life gets to be more than you can endure my hand is always in reach
And I’m always waiting and I’m always willing to give you whatever you need
I want to be what you need…
Yes I want to be what you need

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides I Want To Be What You Need. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and I Want To Be What You Need by Dolly Parton

The lyrics to I Want To Be What You Need are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Dolly Parton used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to I Want To Be What You Need have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Dolly Parton 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 Want To Be What You Need by Dolly Parton. 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 Want To Be What You Need" means the words set to the music of I Want To Be What You Need, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 Want To Be What You Need and the lyrics to I Want To Be What You Need are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Want To Be What You Need, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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