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Time On My Hands

This version of Time On My Hands was released by Don Williams in 1977.

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Everyday of my life until forever
Is spoken for when you looked at me.
Now that you’re gone my life goes on
But all of the heart is out of me.

And I’ve got time on my hands, you on my mind.
No where to send all my love
And I’ll be here waiting if you ever change your plans
‘Cause you own this time on my hand.

Each mornin’ I see the future before me
Empty and as endless as the sky
I should be here to build life again
But I just can’t find the reason why.

While, I’ve got time on my hands, you on my mind.
No where to send all my love,
I’ll be here waiting if you ever change your plans.
‘Cause you own the time on my hand…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Time On My Hands, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to Time On My Hands have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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