Lyrics to
Mainline Florida

This version of Mainline Florida was released by Eric Clapton in 1974.

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My heart was leaping in the sun;
My friends all say that you’re the one.
Let me get this one thing very clear:
There ain’t enough going on down here.

Mainline Florida, oh say.
Mainline Florida, O.K.

Her arms were open, open wide;
Her invitation’s a changing tide.
I could remember not long ago
We took a cruise down on Hotel Row.

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About Lyrics and Mainline Florida by Eric Clapton

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mainline Florida, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Eric Clapton. Some of the lyrics to Mainline Florida have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eric Clapton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Mainline Florida 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 Mainline Florida" means the words set to the music of Mainline Florida, 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 Mainline Florida and the lyrics to Mainline Florida 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 Mainline Florida, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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