Lyrics to
Libby

This version of Libby was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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If all our flights are grounded
Libby, we’ll meet in Paris
Dance along the boulevards
And have no one to embarrass,
Puttin’ on the Ritz in style
With an Arab and an Heiress,
Libby we’ll fly away – hey
Leave behind our blues
Trade them all in
For a Paris breeze.
Libby we’ll fly

See how dark the circles grow
In a town that has no light
So many eyes just staring out
Into the bloodshot night
And Libby, I hate you to cry, and I
Want to share it all with you,
And if it brings us to our knees
We’ll trade it all in for a Paris breeze.
Libby we’ll fly.

They say it don’t come easy
They say that love is blind
And if you’re afraid to be close
Then love is hard to find
And if you spend too much time winning love
There’s no time to be kind
And Libby, I’m guilty of your crimes,
I’m just another passenger.
Travelling on these crazy high seas
Very likely be the same
In a Paris breeze,
Libby we’ll fly

If all our flights are grounded,
Libby, we’ll go to Paris
And wish we were back home again
Or sailing on the ocean
Just a window and a drink
To set our dreams in motion
But Libby, we’ll fly anyway, hey
And leave behind our blues
Half sung melodies
Trade them all in for a Paris breeze,
Libby we’ll fly.

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Libby. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Libby by Carly Simon

The lyrics to Libby are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carly Simon in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Libby are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carly Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Libby back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Libby by Carly Simon in a number of 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 Libby" means the words set to the music of Libby, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Libby and the lyrics to Libby are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Libby, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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