Lyrics to
It’s Late

This version of It’S Late was released by Queen in 1977.

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You say you love me
And I hardly know your name
And if I say I love you in the candle light
There’s no one but myself to blame
But there’s something inside
That’s turning my mind away
Oh how I could love you
If I could let you stay

It’s late – and I’m bleeding deep inside
It’s late – is it just my sickly pride
Too late – even now the feeling seems to slip away

So late – though I’m crying I can’t help but hear you say
It’s late It’s late It’s late
But not too late

The way you love me
Is the sweetest love around
But after all this time
The more I’m trying
The more I seem to let you down
Now you tell me you’re leaving
And I just can’t believe it’s true
Oh you know that I can love you
Though you know I can’t be true

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When you decide to study the lyrics to It’S Late, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Queen. Some of the lyrics to It’S Late have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Queen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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