Lyrics to
Keep The Fire

This version of Keep The Fire was released by Kenny Loggins in 1979.

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There’s a river in
Evening ember glow
And you’re wishing you could see
How far it flows
Rolling on to an endless sea
You’d be well on your way
If you could only set sail.

But dreams can drift away
And sails can fill with doubt
Where’s your vision
If the embers flicker out?
Don’t let it slip from view

The horizons are waiting
Your river is fading

So keep the fire burning tonight
See just what comes into sight
Don’t take forever
Take it through the night

And believe the sun
Will rise with the dawn
That’s all you need to go on
But for tonight
Just keep the fire burning bright

I will never need to ask
“What have I done?”
Comes a moment when it’s clear
There’s only one.
Oh, whatever you need of me
I’ve made up my mind
I’ll give you more than you’ve asked for

And there are those who can foresee
Where we will go
All the future…
I don’t really want to know
Only that you’ll be here with me.

While the embers still glow
We’ll be safe till tomorrow.

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About Lyrics and Keep The Fire by Kenny Loggins

The lyrics for Keep The Fire are defined as the words making up the song released by Kenny Loggins in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Keep The Fire have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Kenny Loggins and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Keep The Fire by Kenny Loggins if you think through it. 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 The Fire" means the words set to the music of Keep The Fire, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kenny Loggins. 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 The Fire and the lyrics to Keep The Fire are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kenny Loggins who came here looking just for the lyrics to Keep The Fire, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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