Lyrics to
Rose Darling

This version of Rose Darling was released by Steely Dan in 1975.

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Rose darling come to me
Snake Mary’s gone to bed
All our steaming sounds of love
Cannot disturb her in her night
Or raise her sleeping head
All I ask of you
Is make my wildest dreams come true
No one sees and no one knows
Rose darling come to me
Snake Mary dreams along
I would guess she’s in Detroit
With lots of money in the bank
Although I could be wrong
You must know it’s right
The spore is on the wind tonight
You won’t feel it till it grows

Rose darling my friend
With only you and what I’ve found
We’ll wear the weary hours down

Rose darling come to me
The clock is close at hand
All my empty words of love
Can never screen the flash I feel
Or make you understand
Honey can’t you see
I know it’s real it’s got to be
Why not chase it where it goes

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About Lyrics and Rose Darling by Steely Dan

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

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

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