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Please Be With Me

This version of Please Be With Me was released by Eric Clapton in 1974.

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Oh my word, what does it mean?
Is it love or is it me
That makes me change so suddenly?
Looking out, feeling free.

Sit here lying in my bed,
Wondering what it was I’d said
That made me think I’d lost my head,
When I knew I lost my heart instead.

Won’t you please read my signs, be a gypsy.
Tell me what I hope to find deep within me.
Because you can find my mind, please be with me.

Of all the better things I’ve heard,
Loving you has made the words
And all the rest seem so absurd,
‘Cause in the end it all comes out unsure.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Please Be With Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Eric Clapton. Some of the lyrics to Please Be With Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eric Clapton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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