Lyrics to
Rubylove

Released by Cat Stevens in 1971
From the Album: Teaser And The Firecat |

This version of Rubylove was released by Cat Stevens in 1971.

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Who’ll be my love
You’ll be my love
You’ll be my sky above
Who’ll be my light
You’ll be my light
You’ll be my day and night
You’ll be mine tonight

Ruby glykeia (Ruby my sweet)
Ela xana (come again)
Ela xana konta mou (come again close to me)
Ela proi (come in the morning)
Me tin avgi (by dawn)
Hrisi san iliahtida (gold as a sunbeam)
Ruby mou mikri (You small Ruby)

Ruby my love
You’ll be my love
You’ll be my sky above
Ruby my light
You’ll be my light
You’ll be my day and night
You’ll be mine tonight


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About Lyrics and Rubylove by Cat Stevens

The lyrics to Rubylove are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Cat Stevens used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Rubylove have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Cat Stevens 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 Rubylove by Cat Stevens. 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 Rubylove" means the words set to the music of Rubylove, 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 Rubylove and the lyrics to Rubylove 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 Rubylove, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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