Lyrics to
Reason To Be

Released by Don Williams in 1975
From the Album: You're My Best Friend |

This version of Reason To Be was released by Don Williams in 1975.

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First I was love, then I came to be
I had a heart inside of me
And though my heart was working I found
Still there was something it had not found.

So I went away hoping to see
Maybe I’d find what’s missing in me
Knowing so well but not knowing why
If I didn’t find this something I’d die.

And then I came to where I had been
I knew the first was still not the end
What I had left was not what I found
Because there was you, because there I found.

First I was love, then I came to be
I had a heart inside of me
And though my heart is still part of me
You give my heart it’s reason to be…


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Reason To Be, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to Reason To Be have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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