Lyrics to
Prayer

This version of Prayer was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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Tell me, tell me, can it be right
The thing I feel I must do tonight?
Tell me Lord, don’t you really see
The way I am and the things I could be?

Tell me, tell me, can it be true
The things I feel I must do with you?
Tell me Lord, are you really strong?
Do you feel that my feelings are wrong?

Tell me Lord, don’t you really see
The way I am and the things I could be?
Tell me Lord, are you really strong?
Do you feel that my feelings are wrong?

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Prayer. 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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The lyrics to Prayer 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 Prayer 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 Prayer 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 Prayer" means the words set to the music of Prayer, 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 Prayer and the lyrics to Prayer 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 Prayer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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