Lyrics to
Just In Time

This version of Just In Time was released by Chris De Burgh in 1979.

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Just in time I heard the cry,
And looking up I saw the snowbirds wheeling in the sky;
They said, “We are the last ones left”,
And so I brought them in , I gave them comfort, gave them rest,

Just in time, to live another day,
Just in time, oh they’ll live another day;

Just in time I read the book,
Such a revelation, we must give back what we took,
Or the Earth will roar like a wounded beast,
The mountains will come crashing from the valleys to the sea,

Just in time, oh don’t throw it all away,
Just in time, don’t throw it all away…

“Who will save this world of mine,
Will you save it just in time?”

Just in time, I saw the dawn,
Watched the sun arising on a field of golden corn,
And through the mist, a million sang,
Friends of the Earth, calling out to every man,

Just in time, oh don’t throw it all away, no, no, no,
Just in time, oh we’ll live another day…

Ooh, how can I tell you how close we have come,
That the end of our world has already begun,
There are so many things we will not see again,
Every day there’s another one dying away…

Calling for help,
Help from your hand,
Hand coming down,
Down to the world;
World it is time,
Time for us all,
And all that is life,
To be living together before everything slips away.

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Chris De Burgh has released many songs over the years besides Just In Time. Chris De Burgh released songs from 1975 to 2006 spanning across albums like Spanish Train And Other Stories, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, At The End Of A Perfect Day, Crusader, Eastern Wind, The Getaway, Man On The Line, Into The Light, Flying Colours, Power Of Ten, This Way Up, Beautiful Dreams, Quiet Revolution, Timing Is Everything, The Road To Freedom, and The Storyman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chris De Burgh.

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About Lyrics and Just In Time by Chris De Burgh

The lyrics to Just In Time are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chris De Burgh used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Just In Time have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chris De Burgh 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 Just In Time by Chris De Burgh. 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 Just In Time" means the words set to the music of Just In Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. 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 Just In Time and the lyrics to Just In Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Just In Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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