Lyrics to
Surely

This version of Surely was released by Supertramp in 1970.

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Only if I lied could I love you
Nothing of our lives could we share
Only could we try to get by on a sigh
Just because, just this once, I was there

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Supertramp has released many songs over the years besides Surely. Supertramp released songs from 1970 to 2002 spanning across albums like Supertramp, Indelibly Stamped, Crime Of The Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even In The Quietest Moments..., Breakfast In America, ...Famous Last Words..., Brother Where You Bound, Free As A Bird, Some Things Never Change, and Slow Motion. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Supertramp.

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About Lyrics and Surely by Supertramp

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

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