Lyrics to
Songbird

This version of Songbird was released by Barbra Streisand in 1978.

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Songbird sings from the heart
Each word can tear you apart
I sing – you sing along
You find your life in my song
When you need the strength to carry on
You’ve got me to turn to
With the songs that I sing
And the magic they bring
They’ve helped you be strong now
The song sets you free
But who sings to me
I’m all alone now
Who sings for songbird
Sometimes
When I’ m all alone
I sing my saddest song
Lonely, and no one can see
This time the song is for me
I can touch your secret place inside
And still you don’t know me
With the songs that I sing
And the magic they bring
You’ve learned to be strong now
The song sets you free
But who sings to me
I’m all alone now
Where is my songbird,
Where is my songbird,
Who sings his song for me?

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About Lyrics and Songbird by Barbra Streisand

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

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