Lyrics to
Takin’ My Time

This version of Takin’ My Time was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1977.

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I’m takin’ my time
So please don’t rush me.
Tryin’ to sort out some things I didn’t know existed.
I’ve been here before,
I know where the traps lie.
You only take what’s there ’cause the rest doesn’t matter.

Well I’m tired of talk,
So please don’t push me.
You know I want the same kinda things that you do.
You’re wasting your time,
The way you come to me.
Slow down your rhymes and try to reason

Can’t make things move any faster,
By second wishing them to death.
You seem to be living on the level.
It’s decent enough,
You got what you wanted.
So why do you tell me, that I’m on the wrong track?
I’m doin’ the best I can do.

I try to out guess
The situation
That I know your not even fully aware of.
And I want you to know,
If it keeps on this way,
Can’t keep on letting you bring me down.
Can’t keep on letting you bring me down.

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

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