Lyrics to
Let It Be Me

Released by Bob Dylan in 1970
From the Album: Selfportrait |

This version of Let It Be Me was released by Bob Dylan in 1970.

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I bless the day I found you
I want my arms around you
And so I beg you: Let it be me.

Don’t take this heaven from one
If you must cling someone
Now and forever, let it be me.

Each time we meet, love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love, what would life be ?

So never leave me lonely
Tell me that you love me only
And say you’ll always let it be me.


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About Lyrics and Let It Be Me by Bob Dylan

When you decide to study the lyrics to Let It Be Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Bob Dylan. Some of the lyrics to Let It Be Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Dylan and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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