Lyrics to
Please Don’t Keep Me Waiting

This version of Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1978.

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I want to love you once again
Couldn’t you love me too
Don’t turn away from all that we’ve been thru
Everyone changes, be my friend
Haven’t you got the time
Help me I need you, throw me down a line

Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t hold on much longer
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t love you any stronger
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t take this kind of pain
Take me back in your arms once again

Living on dreams from yesterday
Waking and you’re not here
I wanna see your face
I want you near
Now is the moment we must live
You can’t run and hide
I know you want me too
Down deep inside

Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t hold on much longer
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t love you any stronger
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t take this kind of pain
Take me back in your arms once again

Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t hold on much longer
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t love you any stronger
Please don’t keep me waiting
I can’t take this kind of pain
Take me back in your arms once again

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Olivia Newton-John has released many songs over the years besides Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting. Olivia Newton-John released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like Toomorrow, If Not For You, Olivia, Let Me Be There, Long Live Love, Have You Never Been Mellow, Clearly Love, Don't Stop Believin', Come On Over, Making A Good Thing Better, Totally Hot, Grease, Xanadu, Physical, Two Of A Kind, Soul Kiss, The Rumour, Warm And Tender, Gaia: One Woman's Journey, Back With A Heart, Sordid Lives, -2, Indigo: Women Of Song, Stronger Than Before, and Christmas Wish. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Olivia Newton-John.

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About Lyrics and Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting by Olivia Newton-John

The lyrics to Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Olivia Newton-John used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Olivia Newton-John 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 Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting by Olivia Newton-John. 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 Don’T Keep Me Waiting" means the words set to the music of Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. 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 Don’T Keep Me Waiting and the lyrics to Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Please Don’T Keep Me Waiting, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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