Lyrics to
Mother Can You Carry Me

This version of Mother Can You Carry Me was released by Rick Springfield in 1972.

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When I was younger than tomorrow
When I was wise as yesterday
When I could share my brother’s sorrow
Even then you went away

When my heart was yours to play with
Though your was never mine
And when I was there to lay with
Even then you had no time

Mother can you carry me
Clear across the sky
Mother can you carry me
Show me how to fly high

Now I am wise as tomorrow
And I am young as yesterday
No I have nothing buy my sorrow
Yesterday tomorrow and today

Mother can you carry me
Clear across the sky
Mother can you carry me
Show me how to fly high

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About Lyrics and Mother Can You Carry Me by Rick Springfield

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mother Can You Carry Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Rick Springfield. Some of the lyrics to Mother Can You Carry Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rick Springfield and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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