Lyrics to
She Won’t Let Me Fly Away

This version of She Won’T Let Me Fly Away was released by John Denver in 1972.

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Well, I wake up late in the afternoon. I eat my eggs with the evening news.
And the sun’s gone down before I find my shoes.
Music fills the air, but it’s all the blues.
She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.

Well, we got no heat and the window’s broke,
The storm rains came, everything got soaked.
And there’s no bread left, nothing here to smoke,
and the Lord looks down saying, “Can’t you take a joke?”
She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.

The palm tree’s just a picture on a postcard,
the ocean’s just a memory in my dream.
And a man comes a TV selling soapsuds to dirty up my rivers and my streams.

Like a mystery movie without an end. When you think it’s over, it just begins.
It’s not always true that the good guy wins,
I been down so long that I got the bends.

She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.
She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.
She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.
She won’t let me fly away, she won’t let me fly away.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides She Won’T Let Me Fly Away. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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The lyrics for She Won’T Let Me Fly Away are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by John Denver. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to She Won’T Let Me Fly Away 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 She Won’T Let Me Fly Away - John Denver and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to She Won’T Let Me Fly Away by John Denver 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 She Won’T Let Me Fly Away" means the words set to the music of She Won’T Let Me Fly Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 She Won’T Let Me Fly Away and the lyrics to She Won’T Let Me Fly Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to She Won’T Let Me Fly Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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