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True Love Tends To Forget

This version of True Love Tends To Forget was released by Bob Dylan in 1978.

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I’m getting weary looking in my baby’s eyes
When she’s near me she’s so hard to recognize
But I finally realize there’s no room for regret
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

Hold me, baby be near
You told me that you’d be sincere
But every day of the year’s like playing Russian roulette
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

I was lying down in the reeds without any oxygen
I saw you in the wilderness among the men
I saw you drift into infinity and come back again
All you got to do is wait ’till I’ll tell you when.

You’re a tearjerker, baby, but I’m under your spell
You’re a hard worker, baby, and I know you well
At this weekend in hell is making me sweat
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

I was lying down in the reeds without any oxygen
I saw you in the wilderness among the men
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
All you got to do is wait and I’ll tell you when.

You belong to me baby, without any doubt
Don’t forsake me baby, don’t sell me out
Don’t keep me knocking about from Mexico to Tibet
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

True love, true love, true love tends to forget.
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

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About Lyrics and True Love Tends To Forget by Bob Dylan

The lyrics for True Love Tends To Forget are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Bob Dylan. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to True Love Tends To Forget 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 True Love Tends To Forget - Bob Dylan 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 True Love Tends To Forget by Bob Dylan 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 True Love Tends To Forget" means the words set to the music of True Love Tends To Forget, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Dylan. 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 True Love Tends To Forget and the lyrics to True Love Tends To Forget are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Dylan who came here looking just for the lyrics to True Love Tends To Forget, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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