Lyrics to
Talking In Your Sleep

This version of Talking In Your Sleep was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1971.

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I heard you talking in your sleep
Is there anything that I can do
I don’t believe we’ve had a word all day
‘Bout anything at all
I heard you talking in the night
That’s right, yes I heard ya call
Though I could hardly hear the name you spoke
It’s a name I don’t recall
I heard you softly whisper
I reached out to hold you near me
Then from your lips there came that secret
I was not supposed to know

I heard you talking in your sleep
Is there anything that I can say
I don’t believe we’ve had a word all day
‘Bout anything at all
I heard you talking in the night
That’s right, yes I heard ya call
Though I could hardly hear the name you spoke
It’s a name I don’t recall

I heard you talking in your sleep
Is there anything that I can do
I don’t believe we’ve had a word all day
‘Bout anything at all

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Talking In Your Sleep, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Some of the lyrics to Talking In Your Sleep have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Gordon Lightfoot and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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