Lyrics to
Spaceship Races

This version of Spaceship Races was released by Carole King in 1970.

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Baby, you’re so frazzled
Spinnin’ around in a busby swirl
With all that razzle-dazzle
I know at heart you want a down-home girl

Aw, ya know I want to take you to the spaceship races
Watch ’em do a few laps around the sun
But if you don’t go in for far-off places
I’ll take you home with me
When the day is done

Baby, you’re so scattered
Your span of attention is shrinkin’ fast
Your brain’s been battered
By all the disappointments of the recent past

Aw, ya know I want to take you to the spaceship races
Watch ’em do a few laps around the sun
But if you don’t go in for far-off places
I’ll take you home with me

Didn’t I see you walkin’ on Main Street
Lookin’ in the windows
Waitin’ by turnstiles
Thinking of things you thought you’d like to buy

Living off dreams stored up in film cans
Looking at screens just waiting your turn while
You looked up and saw a rocket in the sky

Aw, ya know I want to take you to the spaceship races
Watch ’em do a few laps around the sun
But if you don’t go in for far-off places
I’ll take you home with me
When the day is done
When the day is done

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Spaceship Races. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Spaceship Races by Carole King

The lyrics for Spaceship Races are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Carole King. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Spaceship Races 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 Spaceship Races - Carole King 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 Spaceship Races by Carole King 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 Spaceship Races" means the words set to the music of Spaceship Races, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Spaceship Races and the lyrics to Spaceship Races are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Spaceship Races, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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