Lyrics to
Keep Me From Blowing Away

This version of Keep Me From Blowing Away was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1974.

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Well I spent my whole lifetime
In a world where the sunshine
Finds excuses for not hangin’ ’round
I squandered emotions
On the slightest of notions
And the first easy loving I found
But soon all the good times
The gay times and play times
Like colors run together and fade
Oh Lord if you hear me
Touch me and hold me
And keep me from blowing away

There’s times when I trembled
When my mind remembered
The days that just crumbled away
With nothing to show
But these lines that I know
Are beginning to show in my face

Oh Lord if you’re listening
I know I’m no Christian
And I ain’t got much coming to me
So send down some sunshine
Throw out your lifeline
And keep me from blowing away

Oh Lord if you hear me
Touch me and hold me
And keep me from blowing away

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

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