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Linda Paloma

This version of Linda Paloma was released by Jackson Browne in 1976.

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At the moment the music began
And you heard the guitar player starting to sing
You were filled with the beauty that ran
Through what you were imagining
Dreaming of scenes from those songs of love
I was the endless sky
And you were my Mexican dove

Now the music that played in your ears
Grows a little bit fainter each day
And you find yourself looking through tears
At the love you feel slipping away
Though it’s not the kind
Of love you might hope to find
If tears could release the heart
From the shadows preferred by the mind

Like a wind that comes up in the night
Caressing your face while you sleep
Love will fill your eyes with the sight
Of a world you can’t hope to keep
Dreaming on after that moment’s gone
The light in your lover’s eyes
Disappears with the light of the dawn

But the morning brings
Strength to your restless wings
And some other lover sings
To the sun’s bright corona
I know all about these things
Linda Paloma
Fly away
Linda Paloma

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About Lyrics and Linda Paloma by Jackson Browne

The lyrics for Linda Paloma are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Jackson Browne. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Linda Paloma 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 Linda Paloma - Jackson Browne 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 Linda Paloma by Jackson Browne 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 Linda Paloma" means the words set to the music of Linda Paloma, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson Browne. 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 Linda Paloma and the lyrics to Linda Paloma are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson Browne who came here looking just for the lyrics to Linda Paloma, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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