Lyrics to
Ready

This version of Ready was released by Cat Stevens in 1974.

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I love I love I’m ready to love yes
I love I love I’m ready to love yeah
I love I love I’m ready
to ready to ready to love
I love I love I’m ready to love yeah

You keep me awake with your white lilly smile
don’t keep me watching your charms all the while
Cause as all the wise men say
Grab it if it comes your way
I’m ready Oh

I love I love I’m ready to love yeah
ready to love
I love I love I’m ready to love yeah

You make me feel things Ive never felt before
Help my baby eyes and open up the door
You make me real to everyone and everyday I
I thank the Lord that you came along this way
Its no more an illusion than I can say

I love I love I’m ready to love yes
I love I love I’m ready to love yeah
I love I love I’m ready
Ready Ready Ready to love

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About Lyrics and Ready by Cat Stevens

The lyrics to Ready are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Cat Stevens in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Ready are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Cat Stevens and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Ready back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Ready by Cat Stevens in a number of ways. 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 Ready" means the words set to the music of Ready, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Ready and the lyrics to Ready are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ready, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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