Lyrics to
Time To Live

This version of Time To Live was released by Uriah Heep in 1971.

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Let me see the sunshine
Let me feel the rain
Let me go where I want to go
I want to smell the flowers
See the dawn again
Find those friends I used to know
Find those friends I used to know

Well I spent twenty long years
In a dirty old prison cell
I never saw the light of day
If you could understand oh
That kind of living hell
That’s the price I have to pay Oh Yeah
That’s the price I have to pay Oh Yeah, oh oh

They said I killed a man
But I never told them why
So you can guess what I’ve been through
So for twenty long years
I’ve been thinking of that other guy
And what I saw him do to you
What I saw him do to you

Listen here
So if tomorrow comes
And I walk outside that door
Try to understand the strain
But if you smile that smile
I know I couldn’t ask for more
I know I’d do it all again
Yes I would
I know I’d do it all again
Yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah
Do it all again
Do it all again

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Uriah Heep has released many songs over the years besides Time To Live. Uriah Heep released songs from 1970 to 1998 spanning across albums like Very 'eavy... Very 'umble, Salisbury, Look At Yourself, Demons And Wizards, The Magician's Birthday, Sweet Freedom, Wonderworld, Return To Fantasy, High And Mighty, Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel, Conquest, Abominog, Head First, Equator, Raging Silence, Different World, Sea Of Light, and Sonic Origami. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Uriah Heep.

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About Lyrics and Time To Live by Uriah Heep

The lyrics for Time To Live are defined as the words making up the song released by Uriah Heep in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Time To Live have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Uriah Heep and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Time To Live by Uriah Heep if you think through it. 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 To Live" means the words set to the music of Time To Live, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Uriah Heep. 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 To Live and the lyrics to Time To Live are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Uriah Heep who came here looking just for the lyrics to Time To Live, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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