Lyrics to
Mother’s Nature Matinee

This version of Mother’S Nature Matinee was released by Styx in 1972.

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Morning sunshine
On carpets of green
Cascades of water
Are flowing endlessly

Here in the morning light
We spent a holiday
Here in the morning
At mother nature’s matinee

Here in the morning
At mother nature’s matinee

Here in the morning
At mother nature’s matinee

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About Lyrics and Mother’S Nature Matinee by Styx

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mother’S Nature Matinee, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Styx. Some of the lyrics to Mother’S Nature Matinee have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Styx and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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