Lyrics to
Making Believe

This version of Making Believe was released by Emmylou Harris in 1977.

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Making believe that you still love me
It’s leaving me alone and so blue
Still I’ll always dream, but I’ll never own you
Making believe, its all I can do

Can’t hold you close when you’re not whit me
You’re somebody’s love, you’ll never be mine
Making believe I’ll spend my lifetime
Loving you and making believe

Making believe I never lost you
But my happy hours are so few
My plans for the future will never come true
Making believe what else can I do

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides Making Believe. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

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About Lyrics and Making Believe by Emmylou Harris

The lyrics to Making Believe are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Emmylou Harris in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to Making Believe are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Emmylou Harris and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Making Believe back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Making Believe by Emmylou Harris in a number of 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 Making Believe" means the words set to the music of Making Believe, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. 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 Making Believe and the lyrics to Making Believe are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to Making Believe, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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