Lyrics to
Signs

This version of Signs was released by Neil Diamond in 1976.

Visit the Neil Diamond Lyrics profile at Decade Lyrics - it has the Signs lyrics as well as the rest of the songs by Neil Diamond.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Neil Diamond or about the 1970s in general.

Signs that burn like shooting stars
That pass across the nighttime skies
They reach out in their mystic language
For us to read between the lines
Some are born who would defy them
Others still who would deny them
Signs

Signs like moments hung suspended
Echoes just beneath the heart
Speak in voices half remembered
And half remembered play their part
Signs that come as we lay sleeping
Left behind for our keeping
Signs

Sail along, sail along the reefs
And the coves inside your soul
Sail along, sail along in search of a star
That you can hold
And we journey far, to where that star
May lead to….

Signs that whisper in the dreams
Of sailors and of river queens
Of paupers and of men with means
It all depends on how it reads
And some are born who never need them
Others still who never read them
Signs

Sail along, sail along the reefs
And the coves inside your soul
Sail along, sail along in search of a star
That you can hold
Don’t we journey far to where that star
May lead to…..

Signs
Signs
Some are born who never need them
Others still who never read them
Signs

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Neil Diamond?

Neil Diamond has released many songs over the years besides Signs. Neil Diamond released songs from 1966 to 2005 spanning across albums like The Feel Of Neil, Velvet Gloves And Spit, Touching You, Touching Me, Sweet Caroline, Tap Root Manuscript, Stones, Do It, Moods, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Serenade, Beautiful Noise, I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, September Morn, The Jazz Singer, On The Way To The Sky, Heartlight, Primitive, Headed For The Future, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Lovescape, The Christmas Album, Up On The Roof: Songs From The Brill Building, The Christmas Album Volume Two, In My Lifetime, Tennessee Moon, and 12 Songs. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Neil Diamond.

If you're a fan of the music of the 1970s looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Signs by Neil Diamond

The lyrics for Signs are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Neil Diamond. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Signs 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 Signs - Neil Diamond 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 Signs by Neil Diamond 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 Signs" means the words set to the music of Signs, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Diamond. 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 Signs and the lyrics to Signs are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Diamond who came here looking just for the lyrics to Signs, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Neil Diamond

Visit our Neil Diamond profile for more Neil Diamond songs, lyrics & info!

)