Lyrics to
Taking Our Own Sweet Time

This version of Taking Our Own Sweet Time was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1970.

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Taking our own sweet time
Love, it comes easy
Nothing better to do
Baby, just me and you
Taking our own sweet time

People forget that they’re young
Everything’s old pat
‘Cause they don’t know where it’s at
We got the secret of life in the palm of our hand
We don’t bury our heads in the sand
And we don’t make any plans

Taking our own sweet time
Living is breezy
If you know how to slow down
And take a look around
Brothers and sisters

Why run around like a chicken without a head
When you can relax in your bed
Why should we go by the clock each and every day
Just let your heart lead the way
And think of the games we can play

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Olivia Newton-John has released many songs over the years besides Taking Our Own Sweet Time. Olivia Newton-John released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like Toomorrow, If Not For You, Olivia, Let Me Be There, Long Live Love, Have You Never Been Mellow, Clearly Love, Don't Stop Believin', Come On Over, Making A Good Thing Better, Totally Hot, Grease, Xanadu, Physical, Two Of A Kind, Soul Kiss, The Rumour, Warm And Tender, Gaia: One Woman's Journey, Back With A Heart, Sordid Lives, -2, Indigo: Women Of Song, Stronger Than Before, and Christmas Wish. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Olivia Newton-John.

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The lyrics for Taking Our Own Sweet Time are defined as the words making up the song released by Olivia Newton-John in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Taking Our Own Sweet Time have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Olivia Newton-John and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Taking Our Own Sweet Time by Olivia Newton-John if you think through it. 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 Taking Our Own Sweet Time" means the words set to the music of Taking Our Own Sweet Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. 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 Taking Our Own Sweet Time and the lyrics to Taking Our Own Sweet Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Taking Our Own Sweet Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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