Lyrics to
There We Are

This version of There We Are was released by James Taylor in 1977.

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Listen to me and I’ll sing you a song
and the time will go by till you never know where it’s gone.
Talk to me and I’ll tell you my life story.
Walk with me and I’ll tell you my dreams of glory.
There we are walking hand in hand, somewhere on the sand
at the end of the land and the edge of the shining sea.

Drifting through time and space on the face of a little blue ball falling around the sun.
One in a million, billion twinkling lights shining out for no one in the middle of the night.
Here we are, sparks in the darkness, speaking of our love
burning down forever and forever.

Oh, I don’t know if I told you, but you hold my heart in your hand.
And I found out something about you, baby, without you. I’m a lonely man.

So though I never say that I love you, I love you, darling I do, Carly, I do love you.
And though we are as nothing to the stars that shine above,
you are my universe, you are my love.
Here we are, like children forever, taking care of one another
while the world goes on without us, all around us.

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About Lyrics and There We Are by James Taylor

The lyrics for There We Are are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by James Taylor. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to There We Are have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for There We Are - James Taylor and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to There We Are by James Taylor in multiple ways. 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 There We Are" means the words set to the music of There We Are, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 There We Are and the lyrics to There We Are are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to There We Are, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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