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Music

This version of Music was released by James Taylor in 1975.

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Things may always stay the way they are,
still my head looks for a change from time to time.
I don’t really mean to look that far- turn on the music,
strike up the music, let the music change my mind.

Now don’t I dig the big time rock and roll. Sit in the darkness and be somebody else.
A time which after all is under control- crank out the music,
give me music, let the music fill the air.

My dear friend, your head’s been sinking like a stone.
You must try thinking like a cloud sometime.
Just leave a happy side out loud sometime.
There’s a symphony inside you, there’s a thousand things for you to do, so come on.

Let a hush fall on the movie crowd. Boy turns to girl and says I love you so.
What I hear in here is violins- give me music, miss the music, let the music be there too.
I’ll never know what to do unless you let the music be there too.

You see this man his head’s been sinking like a stone.
You must try thinking like a cloud sometime.
Just leave a happy side out loud sometime.
There’s a symphony inside you, there’s a thousand things for you to do, so come on.

Let a hush fall on the movie crowd.
Boy turns to girl and says I love you so, well, you know, what I hear in here is violins-
Strike up the music, lay on the music let the music be there, too.
Never know what to do unless you let the music be there too.

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The lyrics to Music are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by James Taylor in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Music are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by James Taylor and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Music back when it was created.

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

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