Lyrics to
Thank You For…

This version of Thank You For… was released by Hall & Oates in 1972.

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Thank you for walking
Thank you for spending one day,
with a stranger

Good morning. Hello! Choose a color, carnation
we’ll walk along.

Down round the pond, up the hill bricks and steeples
it’s not all gone… I recall

Thank you for walking
Thank you for spending one day,
with a stranger

Thank you for talking
and showing the way to a stranger

Wining and dining (what a September)
from bags by the river (I should’ve worn a sweater)
a sun, sail, song (it’s cooler up here)

We sat on a wall (oh my)
rest our feet (just a little longer)
touch our noses

Then slow poke on… oh, I recall

One red carnation
the color for April
and apples
and wine

I suppose it was white… but I needed the rhyme.

As I packed up to leave oh, I noticed the fountain,
the statue’s hand.

There in her bronzed, moistened, palm
red carnation
Without you there… I recall

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Thank You For…, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Hall & Oates. Some of the lyrics to Thank You For… have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Hall & Oates and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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