Lyrics to
In The Shelter

This version of In The Shelter was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1971.

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In the shelter
In the morning as the sun was brightly beaming
I heard her cryin’ out what is it all about
I just don’t know
But I can’t go back home

Lonely princess
All the days out on your own are growing empty
Nothing is goin’ well if you could only tell them
How you feel
But they’re too real to understand

Too many trite expressions ended in forced rejections
long ago
Too many innocent faces too many far out places
something’s wrong
Let me tell you that something’s wrong
It’s been that way so long
It’s a shame

On the street car
To the city where she knows that she might lose it all
Riding for just a dime taking her own sweet time
and knowing well
This could be her final fall

Past the boutique
down the alley to the river people pass her by
Sits on the big gray rocks takes off her boots and socks
And knowing what she will do next
Just starts to cry

Too many small suggestions ending in angry questions
from her dad
Too many TV dinners and everyone loves a winner
But she was lost
No one knows the trials she had

In the shelter
In the morning as the sun was brightly beaming
I heard her cryin’ out what is it all about
I just don’t know
But I can’t go back home

Lord I just don’t know but I can’t go back home

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The lyrics for In The Shelter are defined as the words making up the song released by Jimmy Buffett in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to In The Shelter have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Jimmy Buffett and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to In The Shelter by Jimmy Buffett if you think through it. 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 The Shelter" means the words set to the music of In The Shelter, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. 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 The Shelter and the lyrics to In The Shelter are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to In The Shelter, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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