Lyrics to
Seeing Red

This version of Seeing Red was released by Carole King in 1979.

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Since a time before my memory
He’s been without a home
Once he lived on an open plain where wildlife grazed
And buffalo used to roam
Red was the sunrise on the dawn of his creation
Now where is the road that will lead him to his destination
It took so little time to destroy a way of life
They served his people well
Gifts that they gave in all good faith
Have been misused and shot to hell
You who want wisdom, turn and face the four directions
For only those with one heart, fall under their protection
In the future of my days ahead
I want to see it right
We got to make it right

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Seeing Red. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Seeing Red by Carole King

The lyrics to Seeing Red are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carole King in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Seeing Red are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carole King and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Seeing Red back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Seeing Red by Carole King in a number of ways. 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 Seeing Red" means the words set to the music of Seeing Red, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Seeing Red and the lyrics to Seeing Red are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Seeing Red, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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