Lyrics to
It’s Not For Me To Understand

This version of It’S Not For Me To Understand was released by Willie Nelson in 1971.

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I passed a home the other day
The yard was filled with kids at play
And on the sidewalk of this home
A little boy stood all alone
His smiling face was sweet and kind
But I could see the boy was blind
He listened to the children play
I bowed my head and there I prayed
Dear Lord above why must this be
And then these words came down to me
After all you’re just a man
And it’s not for you to understand
It’s not for you to reason why
You too are blind without my eyes
So question not what I command
Cause it’s not for you to understand

Now when I pray my prayer is one
I pray his will not mine be done
After all I’m just a man
And it’s not for me to understand

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The lyrics to It’S Not For Me To Understand are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Willie Nelson used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to It’S Not For Me To Understand have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Willie Nelson 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 It’S Not For Me To Understand by Willie Nelson. 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 Not For Me To Understand" means the words set to the music of It’S Not For Me To Understand, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 Not For Me To Understand and the lyrics to It’S Not For Me To Understand are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S Not For Me To Understand, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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