Lyrics to
Longer Boats

This version of Longer Boats was released by Cat Stevens in 1970.

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Longer boats are coming to win us
They’re coming to win us, they’re coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they’ll be taking the key from the door.

I don’t want no god on my lawn
Just a flower I can help along
‘Cause the soul of no body knows
how a flower grows… Oh how a flower grows.

Mary dropped her pants by the sand
And let a parson come and take her hand
But the soul of no body knows
Where the parson goes, where does the parson go?

Raise your mind up and look around
You can see them, yes they’re looking down
From a lonely asteroid, in a vacant void.
Dyin’, but not destroyed.

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About Lyrics and Longer Boats by Cat Stevens

The lyrics for Longer Boats are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Cat Stevens. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Longer Boats 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 Longer Boats - Cat Stevens 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 Longer Boats by Cat Stevens 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 Longer Boats" means the words set to the music of Longer Boats, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Longer Boats and the lyrics to Longer Boats are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Longer Boats, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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