Lyrics to
Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye

This version of Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye was released by Cat Stevens in 1975.

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Oh the trees grow higher than the mountains
In the land of free love and goodbye
The river’s ever flowing, fishing growing
And the God I love loves me.

In the sky rides a gleam of white horses
And the glimmer clean in your eye
The bird of dawn is bringing
The simpleness of singing
And the God I love loves me.

Oh the trees grow higher than the mountains
In the land of free love and goodbye
The river’s ever flowing, fishing growing
And the God I love loves me.

And the Sun lies all around
And everything is as it must be
And winter lies underground
And the God I love loves me.

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About Lyrics and Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye by Cat Stevens

The lyrics for Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Cat Stevens. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye 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 Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye - Cat Stevens 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 Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye by Cat Stevens 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 Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye" means the words set to the music of Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye and the lyrics to Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Land O’ Free Love & Goodbye, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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