Lyrics to
Summer ’68

This version of Summer ’68 was released by Pink Floyd in 1970.

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Would you like to say something before you leave?
Perhaps you’d care to state exactly how you feel.
We say goodbye before we’ve said hello.
I hardly even like you.
I shouldn’t care at all.
We met just six hours ago.
The music was too loud.
From your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year.
And I would like to know, how do you feel?
How do you feel?
Not a single word was said.
Delights still without fears.
Occasionally you showed a smile, but what was the need?
I felt the cold far too soon – the wind of ninetyfive.
My friends are lying in the sun, I wish I was there.
Tomorrow brings another town, another girl like you.
Have you time before you leave to greet another man
Just to let me know, how do you feel?
How do you feel?
Goodbye to you.
Charlotte Kringles too.
I’ve had enough for one day.

Pink Floyd has released many songs over the years besides Summer ’68. Pink Floyd released songs from 1967 to 1994 spanning across albums like The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Relics, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, Works, The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, and The Division Bell. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Pink Floyd.

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You can understand the lyrics to Summer ’68 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 Summer ’68" means the words set to the music of Summer ’68, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. 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 Summer ’68 and the lyrics to Summer ’68 are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Summer ’68, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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