Lyrics to
Sunny Skies

This version of Sunny Skies was released by James Taylor in 1970.

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Sunny skies sleeps in the morning, he doesn’t know when to rise.
He closes his weary eyes upon the day, look at him yawning, throwing his morning hours away.
He knows how to ease down slowly, everything is fine in the end.
And you will be pleased to know that sunny skies hasn’t a friend.

Sunny skies weeps in the evening, it doesn’t much matter why.
I guess he just has to cry from time to time, everyone’s leaving, sunny skies has to stay behind.

Still he knows how to ease down slowly, everything is fine in the end.
And you will be pleased to know that sunny skies hasn’t a friend.

Sunny skies sleeps in the morning, he doesn’t know when to rise.
He closes his weary eyes upon the day and throws it all away.

Looking at the snow and trees that grow outside my window,
looking at the things that pass me by.
Wondering if where I’ve been is worth the things I’ve been through,
ending with a friend named sunny skies.

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About Lyrics and Sunny Skies by James Taylor

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

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