Lyrics to
Lonely Children

This version of Lonely Children was released by Foreigner in 1978.

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You go where the wind blows, leading the life you chose
Your destination remains unknown
No one to help you, nobody cares about you
You’re looking for someplace you can call home

Lonely children on the run
Lonely children need someone

Too many questions, you need to answer to them
Your information is so incomplete
You seek directions, you would be lost without them
Don’t let them find you lying in the street

Lonely children on the run
Lonely children, lonely, need someone

Someone to talk to
Someone who cares
Someone who listens
Is anyone there?

They may detest you, someday they may arrest you
They stop at nothing to hold you down
You need to be free, but will they ever let you?
They won’t be happy till you leave town

Lonely children on the run, run on the run
Lonely children need someone, need someone
Lonely children in the night, can’t see the light
Lonely children need a guiding light, don’t forget
Lonely children all alone
Lonely children have no home
Lonely children on the run
Hope someday there’ll be someone
Lonely, lonely children

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About Lyrics and Lonely Children by Foreigner

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lonely Children, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Foreigner. Some of the lyrics to Lonely Children have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Foreigner and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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