Lyrics to
Love Is Surrender

This version of Love Is Surrender was released by The Carpenters in 1970.

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Talk about love
how it makes life complete
You can talk all you want
make it sound nice and sweet,
But the words have an empty ring,
and they don’t really mean a thing,

Without Him love is not to be found;
not to be found.
For love is surrender,
Love is surrender to His will
Love is surrender to His will

Sing about love
and the strength it can give
You can sing how you’re ready
to face life and live,
But you know as the days go by
that no matter how hard you try,

Shout about love
and the wars will all end
You can shout we’re all brothers
and even pretend
But you can’t cover up the past
just pretending we’ll never last,

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

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