Lyrics to
Summerday Sands

This version of Summerday Sands was released by Jethro Tull in 1975.

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I once met a girl with the life in her hands
and we lay together on the summerday sands.
I gave her my raincoat and told her, “Lady, be good!”
And we made truth together, where no one else would.
I smiled through her fingers and ran the dust through her hands,
the hour-glass of reason on the summerday sands.

We sat as the sea caught fire.
Waited as the flames grew higher in her eyes,
in her eyes.
We watched the eagle born
wings clipped, tail feathers shorn, but we saw him rise,
we saw him rise over summerday sands.

Came the ten o’clock curfew.
She said, “I must start my car.
I’m staying with someone I met last night in a bar.”
I called from my wave top:”At least tell me your name!”
She smiled from her wheelspin and said, “It’s all the same.”
I thought for a minute, jumped back on dry land
left one set of footprints on the summerday sands.
I once met a girl with the life in her hands
and we lied together on the summerday sands.

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About Lyrics and Summerday Sands by Jethro Tull

The lyrics to Summerday Sands are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Jethro Tull in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Summerday Sands are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Jethro Tull and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Summerday Sands back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Summerday Sands by Jethro Tull in a number of 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 Summerday Sands" means the words set to the music of Summerday Sands, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jethro Tull. 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 Summerday Sands and the lyrics to Summerday Sands are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jethro Tull who came here looking just for the lyrics to Summerday Sands, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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