Lyrics to
Once More With Feeling

This version of Once More With Feeling was released by Willie Nelson in 1970.

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Once more with feeling once more with feeling
Won’t you hold me till the night fades into day
Once more with feeling once more with feeling
Hold me close don’t let this feeling go away

Sometimes myself runs back to you
I just can’t tell me what to do
But I remember when all wrapped up tight within
The shelter of my arms you used to stay
Once more with feeling…
Once more with feeling…

Willie Nelson has released many songs over the years besides Once More With Feeling. Willie Nelson released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like And Then I Wrote, Here's Willie Nelson, Country Willie - His Own Songs, Country Favorites - Willie Nelson Style, The Party's Over And Other Great Willie Nelson Songs, Make Way For Willie Nelson, Good Times, My Own Peculiar Way, Both Sides Now, Laying My Burdens Down, Yesterday's Wine, Willie Nelson And Family, The Words Don't Fit The Picture, The Willie Way, Shotgun Willie, and Countryman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Willie Nelson.

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The lyrics to Once More With Feeling are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Willie Nelson in 1970. Elements of the lyrics to Once More With Feeling are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Willie Nelson and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Once More With Feeling back when it was created.

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

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