Lyrics to
On The Way Home

This version of On The Way Home was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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When the dream came
I held my breath
With my eyes closed
I went insane,
Like a smoke ring day
When the wind blows
Now I won’t be back
Till later on
If I do come back at all
But you know me,
And I miss you now.

In a strange game
I saw myself as you knew me
When the change came,
And you had a
Chance to see through me
Though the other side
Is just the same
You can tell
My dream is real
Because I love you,
Can you see me now.

Though we rush ahead
To save our time
We are only what we feel
And I love you,
Can you feel it now.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to On The Way Home, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. Some of the lyrics to On The Way Home have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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