Lyrics to
Love You Hold The Key

This version of Love You Hold The Key was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1976.

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Lonely, lonely man she’s set you free now
Moved aside and left a space for me now
Wasted, wasted love walled up inside you
Open up and pour it out on me

Whisper low when you come to me
Hold me tenderly
Safe and warm in my arms tonight
That’s how it’s gonna be
I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve
I don’t have to tell you I’ll never leave
Thought that heaven was close to me
But love you hold the key

Empty, empty years you left behind you
Tears and memories all cried away
Silently a love has grown between us
Now I know that I am free to say

Whisper low when you come to me
Hold me tenderly
Safe and warm in my arms tonight
That’s how it’s gonna be
I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve
I don’t have to tell you I’ll never leave
Thought that heaven was close to me
But love you hold the key
Love you hold the key

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Love You Hold The Key, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Olivia Newton-John. Some of the lyrics to Love You Hold The Key have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Olivia Newton-John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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