Lyrics to
Road Ode

This version of Road Ode was released by The Carpenters in 1972.

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I’ve been on this lonely road so long
Does anybody know where it goes
I remember the last time
The signs pointed home a month ago

Rented cars and empty motel rooms
Lead you everywhere but home
Crowds of people shouting
How they love the show
They don’t know

The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile
The countless times and places lead me back
Please take me back home

I wonder if these feelings ever change
How many times I’ll lift this load

Come tomorrow I’ll be gone again
Roads of sorrow coming to an end for me

The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile
The countless time and places lead me back
Please take me back home

I wonder if these feelings ever change
How many times I’ll lift this load
Come tomorrow I’ll be gone again
Roads of sorrow coming to an end for me

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About Lyrics and Road Ode by The Carpenters

When you decide to study the lyrics to Road Ode, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to Road Ode have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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