Lyrics to
Laying My Burdens Down

This version of Laying My Burdens Down was released by Willie Nelson in 1970.

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Well I used to walk stooped
From the weight of my tears
I just started laying my burdens down
I used to duck bullets from the rifle of fear
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh I’m layin’ ’em down
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh lay I’m layin’ em down
I just started laying my burdens down

The flesh ain’t nothing but the bark on a tree
I just started laying my burdens down
The tree ain’t nothing but the soul in me
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh I’m layin’ ’em down
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh lay I’m layin’ em down
I just started laying my burdens down

My soul took love on a hell of a ride
I just started laying my burdens down
A soul ain’t nothing but the car love drives
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh I’m layin’ ’em down
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh lay I’m layin’ em down
I just started laying my burdens down

Love said Mama can I come on home
I just started laying my burdens down
And God said son you ain’t never been gone
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh I’m layin’ ’em down
I just started laying my burdens down
Oh lay I’m layin’ em down
I just started laying my burdens down

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Laying My Burdens Down, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Willie Nelson. Some of the lyrics to Laying My Burdens Down have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Willie Nelson and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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