Lyrics to
If We Only Have Love

This version of If We Only Have Love was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1972.

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If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years will rise on that morn
If we only have love
To embrace without fears
We will kiss with our eyes
We will sleep without tears

If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own name
If we only have love
We can melt all the guns
And then give the new word
To our daughters and our sons

Oh, if we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old will stand at our side
If we only have love
We will never bow down
We’ll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns

If we only have love
To be shared by all men
We will drink from a dram
To be born once again
If we only have love
If we only have love

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Olivia Newton-John has released many songs over the years besides If We Only Have Love. Olivia Newton-John released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like Toomorrow, If Not For You, Olivia, Let Me Be There, Long Live Love, Have You Never Been Mellow, Clearly Love, Don't Stop Believin', Come On Over, Making A Good Thing Better, Totally Hot, Grease, Xanadu, Physical, Two Of A Kind, Soul Kiss, The Rumour, Warm And Tender, Gaia: One Woman's Journey, Back With A Heart, Sordid Lives, -2, Indigo: Women Of Song, Stronger Than Before, and Christmas Wish. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Olivia Newton-John.

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About Lyrics and If We Only Have Love by Olivia Newton-John

The lyrics to If We Only Have Love are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Olivia Newton-John used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to If We Only Have Love have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Olivia Newton-John 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 If We Only Have Love by Olivia Newton-John. 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 If We Only Have Love" means the words set to the music of If We Only Have Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. 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 If We Only Have Love and the lyrics to If We Only Have Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to If We Only Have Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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