Lyrics to
One Way Glass

From the Album: Glorified Magnified |

This version of One Way Glass was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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Give me a window with one way glass
To look out on the world and watch people pass
Give me a window to shield me
Where I can’t be seen, I don’t wanna be free

Give me a window to stop the sound
To keep out the noise of the merry-go-round
Give me a window with one way glass
Save me from questions I might have to ask


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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides One Way Glass. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and One Way Glass by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics to One Way Glass are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Manfred Mann's Earth Band used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to One Way Glass have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to One Way Glass by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 One Way Glass" means the words set to the music of One Way Glass, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 One Way Glass and the lyrics to One Way Glass are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to One Way Glass, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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