Lyrics to
On Susan’s Floor

This version of On Susan’S Floor was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1972.

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Like crippled ships that made it
Through a storm and finally reached a quiet shore
The homeless found a home on Susan’s floor

Didn’t feel so cold and tired
Stretched out before her fire
Rollin’ smokes and drinkin’ up her wine
And I remember candlelight
And singing ’til we could not sing no more
Then fallin’ warm asleep on Susan’s floor

Well now that my song is sweeeter
I think I’d like to greet her
And thank her for the favors that she gave
A stranger I came
My head bowed in the rain to her door
I sat and sang my songs on Susan’s floor

In the mornin’ I’d go on
Buyin’ kingdoms with my songs
Knowin’ I’d be back in just a while
Warm in the sunlight of her smile

Well lots of time and songs have passed
I catch myself just looking back
Reliving all the wonder of those nights
That’s where I’d be today
If I had only stayed one night more
And sang another song on Susan’s floor

Like crippled ships that made it
Through a storm and finally reached a quiet shore
The homeless found a home on Susan’s floor

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

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

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