Lyrics to
Silver Bells

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Silver Bells
Silver Bells
Hear them ring
Silver Bells

City sidewalks
Busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear

Silver Bells
Silver Bells
It’s Christmas time in the city
Ting-a-ling
Ting-a-ling
Hear them ring
Hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day

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The Carpenters has released many songs over the years besides Silver Bells. The Carpenters released songs from 1969 to 1989 spanning across albums like Ticket To Ride, Close To You, Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage, Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, and Lovelines. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Carpenters.

About Lyrics and Silver Bells by The Carpenters

The lyrics for Silver Bells are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by The Carpenters. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Silver Bells 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 Silver Bells - The Carpenters 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 Silver Bells by The Carpenters 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 Silver Bells" means the words set to the music of Silver Bells, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 Silver Bells and the lyrics to Silver Bells are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to Silver Bells, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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