Lyrics to
Tranquillo (Melt My Heart)

Released by Carly Simon in 1978
From the Album: Boys In The Trees |

This version of Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) was released by Carly Simon in 1978.

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Tranquillo, got to get you into bed now
Just a little boy in the body of a dream
Can’t stay up and won’t go to sleep
What does it mean –

Tranquillo, no other way to go now
‘Cause you need a lot of bass & drums for your rockabye
Just a lullaby for a wide-eyed guy
This charm of yours, better put it on hold
Put it on hold, put it on hold because you…

Melt my heart, why don’t you
Melt my heart
Melt my heart, tranquillo
Melt my heart

Tranquillo, I wanted to go out dancin’
But you got me dancin’ round and round
Your momma’s never gonna get to town
These plans of mine better put ’em on hold
Put ’em on hold, put ’em on hold because you

Melt my heart, why don’t you
Melt my heart
Melt my heart, tranquillo
Melt my heart


Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Tranquillo (Melt My Heart). Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) by Carly Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Tranquillo (Melt My Heart), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Carly Simon. Some of the lyrics to Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carly Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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