Lyrics to
Pictures Of Home

This version of Pictures Of Home was released by Deep Purple in 1972.

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Somebody’s shouting
Up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody’s up there
It’s a deception
When will I ever learn?

I’m alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home

Wondering blindly
How can they find me
Maybe they don’t even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow…

Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there’s no worship
Where have they hidden my thrown…

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Deep Purple has released many songs over the years besides Pictures Of Home. Deep Purple released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like The Book Of Taliesyn, Shades Of Deep Purple, Deep Purple, Deep Purple In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are, Burn, Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band, Perfect Strangers, The House Of Blue Light, Slaves And Masters, The Battle Rages On..., Purpendicular, Abandon, Bananas, and Rapture Of The Deep. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Deep Purple.

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About Lyrics and Pictures Of Home by Deep Purple

The lyrics for Pictures Of Home are defined as the words making up the song released by Deep Purple in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Pictures Of Home have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Deep Purple and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Pictures Of Home by Deep Purple if you think through it. 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 Pictures Of Home" means the words set to the music of Pictures Of Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Deep Purple. 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 Pictures Of Home and the lyrics to Pictures Of Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Deep Purple who came here looking just for the lyrics to Pictures Of Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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