Lyrics to
Light In The Black

This version of Light In The Black was released by Rainbow in 1976.

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Can’t forget his face
What a lonely place
Has he really let us go?

All the time that’s lost
What’s the final cost
Will I really get away?

All my life it seems
Just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebody’s star

Can’t believe it all
Did he really fall
What to do now I don’t know

Something’s called me back
There’s a light in the black
Am I ready to go?
I’m coming home

Breathed the air before
Heard the thunder roar
Never knew it was for me

Always looking down
Lost and never found
Eyes that look but not to see

All my life it seems
Just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebody’s star

Like an open door
That you’ve passed before
But you’ve never had the key

Something’s calling me back
There’s a light in the black
Am I ready to go?

I’m coming home, I’m coming home, yeah
I’m going back to my home

I’m going home, home, home
Going home, home, home
I’m coming back

Don’t forget his face
What a lonely place
Did he really let us go

All the time that’s lost
What’s the final cost
Will I really get away?

All my life it seems
Just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebody’s star

Can’t believe it all
Did he really fall
What to do now, well I don’t know

Something’s calling me back
Like a light in the black
Yes, I?m ready to go
I’m coming home, home, yeah

I’ve got my way back home
To the sky
There in the sky
I see your star

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About Lyrics and Light In The Black by Rainbow

The lyrics to Light In The Black are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Rainbow used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Light In The Black have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Rainbow and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Light In The Black by Rainbow. 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 Light In The Black" means the words set to the music of Light In The Black, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rainbow. 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 Light In The Black and the lyrics to Light In The Black are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rainbow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Light In The Black, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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