Lyrics to
Sometimes

This version of Sometimes was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1971.

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Sometimes I get to thinking
About the times we used to have
But now you’ve gone away and left me so alone
La di da, la di da da, la di da
Although my back is aching
I’ll work the whole day through
Although you hear that I’ve been wasting
All my time
Taking the sun from the sky
Lifting our hearts to the day
Thinking of new revelations
Talking with nothing to say
Sometimes I get to thinking
About the times we used to have
But now you’ve gone away and left me so alone
La di da, la di da da, la di da
Although my back is aching
I’ll work the whole day through
Although you hear that I’ve been wasting
All my time
Taking the sun from the sky
Lifting our hearts to the day
Thinking of new revelations
Talking with nothing to say

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The lyrics to Sometimes are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Fleetwood Mac used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Sometimes have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Fleetwood Mac and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sometimes by Fleetwood Mac. 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 Sometimes" means the words set to the music of Sometimes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Fleetwood Mac. 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 Sometimes and the lyrics to Sometimes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Fleetwood Mac who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sometimes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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