Lyrics to
Sweet Sweetheart

This version of Sweet Sweetheart was released by Carole King in 1970.

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You’re a sweet sweetheart
You’ve been a real good friend
You’re around when I’m down
To pick me up again
Though it could never be said
To my faults you’re blind
You overlook the bad
And you keep all the good in mind

Now, there have been times
When we couldn’t get it on
And I thought I’d have to admit
The feeling was gone
But you just closed your mind
To all the seeds of doubt
And somehow you found a way
To make it all work out

You’re a sweet sweetheart
You’ve been a real good friend
You’re around when I’m down
To pick me up again
Though it could never be said
To my faults you’re blind
You overlook the bad
And you keep all the good in mind

Now when you come home
At the close of the day
You got a way of lookin’
That sends a message my way
What this message means
Any old fool could see
And the thing that makes me feel so well
Is you mean it just for me

You’re a sweet sweetheart
You’ve been a real good friend
You’re around when I’m down
To pick me up again
Though it could never be said
To my faults you’re blind
You overlook the bad
And you keep all the good in mind

You’re a sweet sweetheart
You’ve been a real good friend
You’re around when I’m down
To pick me up again
Though it could never be said
To my faults you’re blind
You overlook the bad
And you keep all the good in mind

You’re a sweet sweetheart

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About Lyrics and Sweet Sweetheart by Carole King

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sweet Sweetheart, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Carole King. Some of the lyrics to Sweet Sweetheart have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carole King and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Sweet Sweetheart 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 Sweet Sweetheart" means the words set to the music of Sweet Sweetheart, 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 Sweet Sweetheart and the lyrics to Sweet Sweetheart 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 Sweet Sweetheart, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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