Lyrics to
Santa Fe

This version of Santa Fe was released by Van Morrison in 1978.

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Train wheels runnin’ down an open track
In my mem’ry time to take me back
Are you goin are you goin’

To Santa Fe
Do you need it
Can you feel it in the same old way
I can feel it from the mountain top
Runnin’ down to the foamy brine
In a rest’rant ‘cross a table top
Looking into a glass of wine
Whispering in the evening breeze
Green leaves glist’ning eucalyptus trees
Can you hear them
Or get near them

Oh, Santa Fe
Do you need it
Can you feel it in the same old way
I can feel it when it all goes down
Look around and it’s happening
Look around and see what I have found
And it’s more than a song to sing
In the night I hear you callin’
And I’m thinkin’ of you, darlin’

Santa Fe
Do you need it
Can you feel it in the same old way
I can feel it when it all goes down
Look around and it’s happening
Look around and see what I have found
And it’s more than a song to sing
And it’s more, more than a song to sing

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Santa Fe. Van Morrison released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Blowin' Your Mind!, Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band And The Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview, Hard Nose The Highway, It's Too Late To Stop Now, Veedon Fleece, A Period Of Transition, Wavelength, Into The Music, Common One, Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart, A Sense Of Wonder, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Poetic Champions Compose, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Hymns To The Silence, Too Long In Exile, Days Like This, How Long Has This Been Going On, Tell Me Something: The Songs Of Mose Allison, The Healing Game, The Philosopher's Stone, Back On Top, The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast, You Win Again, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and Magic Time. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Van Morrison.

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About Lyrics and Santa Fe by Van Morrison

The lyrics to Santa Fe are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Van Morrison used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Santa Fe have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Van Morrison 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 Santa Fe by Van Morrison. 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 Santa Fe" means the words set to the music of Santa Fe, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Van Morrison. 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 Santa Fe and the lyrics to Santa Fe are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Van Morrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to Santa Fe, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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