Lyrics to
Share The End

Released by Carly Simon in 1971
From the Album: Anticipation |

This version of Share The End was released by Carly Simon in 1971.

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Here come the priests, each one wailing and bemoaning
Lordy, they got their heads bowed down
Here come the madmen, they’re too excited for atoning:
“Burn the mosque,” they’re shouting, “Burn it down!”

Save me a place, surround me with friendly faces
All of us have gathered here to share the end –
To watch the world go up in flames

Please, Lord we’re not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour…

Here come the kings, Let’s dispense with their apologizing
Just bring on the acrobats and clowns
Here comes the rumble, Hang on for universal dying
Please ignore the baying of the hounds

Save me a place, surround me with deadly faces
All of us have gathered here to share the end –
To watch the world go up in flames

Please, Lord we’re not ready
Give us some time to work things out…
Please, Lord we’re not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour…
Please, Lord we’re not ready
Give us some time to work things out…
Please, Lord we’re not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour…


Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Share The End. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Share The End by Carly Simon

The lyrics for Share The End are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Carly Simon. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Share The End have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Share The End - Carly Simon and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Share The End by Carly Simon in multiple 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 Share The End" means the words set to the music of Share The End, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Share The End and the lyrics to Share The End are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Share The End, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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