Lyrics to
Just The Wine

This version of Just The Wine was released by Heart in 1978.

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Once in a life
We lived in a sanctuary
A song could get us free
Slept behind the altar
Only the singer saw

Now it is gone, years on
Times we took alone
Stealing an hour, buying a night
It’s hard on the telephone
Love outside the law
Jai tant reve du toi

Is it gone, this year
Is the song still in your ear
Were we only high
Just the wine
Only the times

When we’re old
How will the story be told
Windswept smoke used by time
Waiting for the bus
Will that be us?

Do you recall my friend
We never thought we’d ever fall
When the salesman came to call
Selling our soul to buy
Sometimes it ain’t no deal at all
Jai tant reve du toi

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About Lyrics and Just The Wine by Heart

The lyrics for Just The Wine are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Heart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Just The Wine have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Just The Wine - Heart and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Just The Wine by Heart in multiple ways. 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 The Wine" means the words set to the music of Just The Wine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Heart. 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 The Wine and the lyrics to Just The Wine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Heart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Just The Wine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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