Lyrics to
Soft-Hearted Hana

This version of Soft-Hearted Hana was released by George Harrison in 1979.

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I ate it and at once my eyes could see you
No sooner had I ooped it down
I felt so far off from the ground I stood on.

My legs they seemed to me like high-rise buildings
My head was high up in the sky
My skin the sun began to fry like bacon.

And then somebody old appeared and asked had I come far . . .
And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala . . .
I kept on body surfing to pretend I hadn’t heard
There was someone there beside me, swimming like Richard III
And I’m still smiling

Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you’re breaking all the rules . . .
You’d better get your clothes on or else there’ll be a row . . .
If it wasn’t for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I’m still smiling.

I fell in love with my Soft-Hearted Hana
She entered right in through my heart
And now although we’re miles apart
I still feel her.

She lives beneath the crater in the meadow
She moves among the fruit and grain
You can meet her after heavy rain has fallen.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Soft-Hearted Hana, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by George Harrison. Some of the lyrics to Soft-Hearted Hana have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only George Harrison and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Soft-Hearted Hana if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Soft-Hearted Hana" means the words set to the music of Soft-Hearted Hana, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Harrison. 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 Soft-Hearted Hana and the lyrics to Soft-Hearted Hana are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Harrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to Soft-Hearted Hana, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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