Lyrics to
Lonely Sky

This version of Lonely Sky was released by Chris De Burgh in 1975.

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The cold north wind they call “La Bise”
Is swirling round about my knees,
Trees are crying leaves into the river;

I’m huddled in this french cafe
I never thought I’d see the day,
But winter’s here and summer’s really over,
Even the birds have packed up and gone,
They’re flying south with their song,
And my love, she too has gone, she had to fly,
Take care, it’s such a lonely sky,
They’ll trap your wings my love and hold your flight,
They’ll build a cage and steal your only sky,
Fly away, fly to me, fly when the wind is high,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky…

The old cathedral lights are low
She and I we’d often go there
To admire and sometimes kneel in prayer;

Lords and ladies lie in stone,
Hand in hand from long ago,
And though their hands are cold they’ll love forever,
Even the choir rehearses those songs
For Christmas is not long,
And alone, I sing my song, she had to fly,
Out there it’s such a lonely sky,
They’ll trap your wings my love and hold your flight,
They’ll build a cage and steal your only sky,
Fly away, fly to me, fly when the wind is high,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky,
Fly away, fly to me, and if you need my love,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky…
I’ll come in with the dawn,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky,
On the wings of the morn,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky,
Above the world we’ll be flying,
I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky…

And though their hands are cold they’ll love forever.

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About Lyrics and Lonely Sky by Chris De Burgh

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lonely Sky, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Chris De Burgh. Some of the lyrics to Lonely Sky have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chris De Burgh and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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