Lyrics to
The Gift Of Song

This version of The Gift Of Song was released by Neil Diamond in 1974.

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Songs to make you free
And songs to take you to another time
Forgotten reasons that are made of rhyme
For you and me
The songs of life
That somehow make us free

And songs to fill the heart
Like quiet candles on a winter’s night
They touch the space
That lies between you and I
And I will sing
The songs of love
That speak to you and me

Then wake the sleeping child
And let me sing to you of other times
And let me make your dreams
As sweet as mine
And I will bring
The gift of song
That only makes us free

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Gift Of Song, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Neil Diamond. Some of the lyrics to The Gift Of Song have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Diamond and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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