Lyrics to
Ships

This version of Ships was released by Barry Manilow in 1979.

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We walked to the sea
Just my father and me
And the dogs played around on the sand
Winter cold cut the air
Hangin’ still everywhere
Dressed in gray, did he say
Hold my hand
I said, love’s easier when it’s far away
We sat and watched a distant light
We’re two ships that pass in the night
We both smile and we say it’s alright
We’re still here
It’s just that we’re out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night
There’s a boat on the line
Where the sea meets the sky
There’s another that rides far behind
And it seems you and I are like strangers
A wide ways apart as we drift on through time
He said, it’s harder now, we’re far away
We only read you when you write
We’re two ships that pass in the night
And we smile when we say it’s alright
We’re still here
It’s just that we’re out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night
We’re just ships that pass in the night
And we smile when we say it’s alright
We’re still here
It’s just that we’re out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night
We’re just two ships that pass in the night
And we smile when we say it’s alright
We’re still here
It’s just that we’re out of sight

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About Lyrics and Ships by Barry Manilow

The lyrics for Ships are defined as the words making up the song released by Barry Manilow in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Ships have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Barry Manilow and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Ships by Barry Manilow if you think through it. 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 Ships" means the words set to the music of Ships, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barry Manilow. 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 Ships and the lyrics to Ships are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barry Manilow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ships, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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