Lyrics to
Old Flame

This version of Old Flame was released by Thin Lizzy in 1976.

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There’s a girl I’ll remember
Oh for such a long, long time
This girl I’ll remember
She was an old flame of mine

Beneath the stars just sipping wine
Young lovers then in summertime
I’ll always remember
That old flame of mine

Love, she comes and gove
True love, she hides then shows
My love, may I propose
That love she comes and goes

Two hearts together two hearts alight
To keep us warm on winter nights
With each dying ember
I remember that old flame of mine

Once this flame it did brightly blaze
Among the ashes there still remains
A glowing spark in my heart
For that old flame of mine

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About Lyrics and Old Flame by Thin Lizzy

When you decide to study the lyrics to Old Flame, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Thin Lizzy. Some of the lyrics to Old Flame have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Thin Lizzy and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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