Lyrics to
Isolation

This version of Isolation was released by John Lennon in 1970.

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People say we got it made don’t they know we’re so afriad
we’re afraid to be alone, everbody got to have a home
Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl
trying to change the whole wide world
Isolation

All the world is a little town
everybody trying to put us down
Isolation

I don’t expect you to understand
after you caused so much pain
But the again you’re not to blame
your just a human, a victim of the insane

We’re afrain of everyone, afraid of the sun
Isolation

The Sun will never disappear
but the world my not have many years
Isolation

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About Lyrics and Isolation by John Lennon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Isolation, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by John Lennon. Some of the lyrics to Isolation have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Lennon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Isolation 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 Isolation" means the words set to the music of Isolation, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Lennon. 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 Isolation and the lyrics to Isolation are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Lennon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Isolation, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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