Lyrics to
Johnny Angel

This version of Johnny Angel was released by The Carpenters in 1973.

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Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel,
You’re an Angel to me.

Johnny Angel, how I love him.
He’s got something I can’t resist,
But he doesn’t even know that I exist.

Johnny Angel, how I want him.
How I tingle when he passes by.
Every time he says “Hello” my heart begins to fly.

I remember how I get carried away.
I dream of him and me, and how it’s gonna be.

Other fellas call me up for a date,
but I just sit and wait, I’d rather concentrate …

… on Johnny Angel.
‘Cause I love him.
And I pray that someday he’ll love me.
And together we will see how lovely heaven will be.

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The Carpenters has released many songs over the years besides Johnny Angel. The Carpenters released songs from 1969 to 1989 spanning across albums like Ticket To Ride, Close To You, Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage, Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, and Lovelines. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Carpenters.

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About Lyrics and Johnny Angel by The Carpenters

The lyrics to Johnny Angel are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Carpenters used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Johnny Angel have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Carpenters 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 Johnny Angel by The Carpenters. 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 Johnny Angel" means the words set to the music of Johnny Angel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 Johnny Angel and the lyrics to Johnny Angel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to Johnny Angel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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