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Lonesome And A Long Way From Home

This version of Lonesome And A Long Way From Home was released by Eric Clapton in 1970.

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Out on an open highway,
Such a lovely day but something’s wrong.
Something, something’s gotta be wrong.

I just left home this morning,
This old road keeps rolling on and on.
Rolling, rolling on and on.

Won’t somebody help me?
Won’t somebody help me?
Won’t somebody help me?

I’ve never been so lonesome and long way from home,
Never been lonesome and long way,
Never been lonesome and long way from home.

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The lyrics to Lonesome And A Long Way From Home are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Eric Clapton used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Lonesome And A Long Way From Home have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Eric Clapton 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 Lonesome And A Long Way From Home by Eric Clapton. 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 Lonesome And A Long Way From Home" means the words set to the music of Lonesome And A Long Way From Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Lonesome And A Long Way From Home and the lyrics to Lonesome And A Long Way From Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Lonesome And A Long Way From Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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