Lyrics to
Southeast City Window

Released by Hall & Oates in 1972
From the Album: Whole Oats |

This version of Southeast City Window was released by Hall & Oates in 1972.

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Riding out along the river
stopping by the pines
It’s nice for someone speaking, to be heard,
by heart and mind
Lying on the needle floor
the city seems so far
Moving with your eyes and smile,
your words told who you are
Sunday grey, one window brings the morning
And your words, like dawn, have opened up my eyes
I’ve been on a sleepy ride without much time for thinking
’til I spent one evening by your Southeast City
Window side
Baby hair a blowin’
in the Sunday morning air
Dreaming on another place and time,
wish we were there
In your dreams you’re far away
and I’m right behind
You know, it’s nice for someone speaking. to be heard,
by heart and mind


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Hall & Oates has released many songs over the years besides Southeast City Window. Hall & Oates released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bigger Than Both Of Us, Beauty On A Back Street, Along The Red Ledge, X-Static, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Big Bam Boom, Ooh Yeah!, Change Of Season, Marigold Sky, Do It For Love, and Our Kind Of Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Hall & Oates.

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About Lyrics and Southeast City Window by Hall & Oates

The lyrics to Southeast City Window are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Hall & Oates used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Southeast City Window have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Hall & Oates 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 Southeast City Window by Hall & Oates. 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 Southeast City Window" means the words set to the music of Southeast City Window, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 Southeast City Window and the lyrics to Southeast City Window are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Southeast City Window, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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