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In My Time

This version of In My Time was released by Nazareth in 1972.

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In my life there’s places I’ve seen,
Places I’ve been in my life.
In my life there’s things I have done,
Times I have won in my life.

Ships I have known,
Winds that have blown.

In my time were people who cared,
People who shared in my time,
Welcomed the good accepted the bad,
Enjoyed what I had in my time.

People I’ve known
Times on my own

And now I’m growing old,
In memory I can hold
My picture book unfolds and I
Can feel myself grow cold.

In my life there’s times to forget,
Things to regret in my life,
May have done wrong but tried to do right
I followed the light in my life,
But now the lights grow dim,
My days are closing in.

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides In My Time. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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The lyrics for In My Time are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Nazareth. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to In My Time have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for In My Time - Nazareth and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to In My Time by Nazareth in multiple ways. 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 In My Time" means the words set to the music of In My Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 In My Time and the lyrics to In My Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to In My Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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