Lyrics to
Try A Little Harder

This version of Try A Little Harder was released by Santana in 1977.

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Try a little harder now
Try a little harder now
Try a little harder now
Try a little harder now

No one ever said it would be easy
Doin’ whatever you do
You just might have to suffer
But keep on movin’ right through
You’ve got to

Sometimes you have to change your tune
To get where you want to be
But don’t you let that satisfy you
You can have all you see

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Santana has released many songs over the years besides Try A Little Harder. Santana released songs from 1969 to 2005 spanning across albums like Santana, Abraxas, Santana III, Caravanserai, Amigos, Festival, Moonflower, Inner Secrets, Marathon, Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality, Zebop!, Shango, Havana Moon, Beyond Appearances, Blues For Salavador, Freedom, Spirits Dancing In The Flesh, Milagro, Supernatural, Shaman, and All That I Am. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Santana.

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About Lyrics and Try A Little Harder by Santana

The lyrics to Try A Little Harder are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Santana used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Try A Little Harder have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Santana and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Try A Little Harder by Santana. 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 Try A Little Harder" means the words set to the music of Try A Little Harder, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Santana. 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 Try A Little Harder and the lyrics to Try A Little Harder are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Santana who came here looking just for the lyrics to Try A Little Harder, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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