Lyrics to
Krakatoa

This version of Krakatoa was released by Styx in 1974.

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Krakatoa you’ve changed your ways
from evil days.
Oh I know a once violent isle
and gentle smile.
When the dust and lava cooled
you were sterile as the rock from which the earth was tooled.
Was man’s beginning a wind borne spore
to fly no more?
Nature’s winning her docile spree
has set her free.
Seeds were wafted on the wind
forming heavy undergrowth for species winged and finned.
Tangled mangles rebuilt your soil
from age dead toil.
Sheltered bay coves protecting life
from Satan’s knife.
Grow and island in the sun
where the hell fire belching earth had destructively left none.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Krakatoa, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Styx. Some of the lyrics to Krakatoa have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Styx and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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