Lyrics to
Love & Maple Syrup

This version of Love & Maple Syrup was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1971.

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Love and maple syrup goes together
Like the sticky winds of winter when they meet
When lonely lovers come to rest
Beneath the trees they do their best
But still they can’t be free
Looking for the world to be
Anything but what they see
Longing to be understood
By the heart that shapes the wood

If you go into the forest, gaze up through the leaves
And see the sky that’s almost wild
You must learn to understand
What makes the forest greet the man
Like a mother’s only child

In the north when when winter’s claw
Relaxes now to keep the laws of nature in control
People come and stand in line
To rob the forest of her wine
But they don’t feel the cold

Looking for the world to be
Anything but what they see
Longing to be understood
By the heart that shapes the wood

Love and maple syrup goes together
Like the sticky winds of winter when they meet
When lonely lovers come to rest
Beneath the trees they do their best
But still they can’t be free

Love and maple syrup shine like
Embers warm, like thoughts divine
They tell us it is spring
Love and maple syrup stir
The thoughts of people into words
Of songs that they can sing

Looking for the world to be
Anything but what they see
Longing to be understood
By the heart that shapes the wood

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About Lyrics and Love & Maple Syrup by Gordon Lightfoot

When you decide to study the lyrics to Love & Maple Syrup, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Some of the lyrics to Love & Maple Syrup have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Gordon Lightfoot and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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