Lyrics to
Memphis Flyer

This version of Memphis Flyer was released by Neil Diamond in 1978.

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Take me home on the Memphis Flyer
Take me home to a point down south
Got to go just to keep from dying
Come on, baby,
You and me gonna play house

You and me on the wings of freedom
You and me leave it all behind
I can’t say where it’s all been leadin’
But come on, baby
Before we go changin’ our mind

We can fly
Like a bird on the wings of a song
We get by
We’re alive but you know that it won’t
Be too long, be too long, be too long

Come on, honey
Time to be movin’ on
Now or never, baby

Got to fly like a song of freedom
Got to fly just to save my soul
You get by on the song I’m singin’
Come on, baby
We’re too young to be gettin’ old

We can fly
Like a bird on the wings of a song
We get by
We’re alive but we won’t be too long
We can fly, we can fly,
We can fly, we can fly

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About Lyrics and Memphis Flyer by Neil Diamond

The lyrics to Memphis Flyer are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Diamond used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Memphis Flyer have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Neil Diamond and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Memphis Flyer by Neil Diamond. 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 Memphis Flyer" means the words set to the music of Memphis Flyer, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Diamond. 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 Memphis Flyer and the lyrics to Memphis Flyer are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Diamond who came here looking just for the lyrics to Memphis Flyer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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