Lyrics to
Turn Around

This version of Turn Around was released by Billy Joel in 1971.

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Oh, sweet lady
Runnin’ like a stream
You don’t look back
Because you know hands are clean

You make believe
That the past was just a dream
You make believe the past was just a dream

Turn around
Turn around
And I will sing for you a song
I don’t know where you been
But you been gone too long

Oh, Eliza, you must beget again
And all the roads that you have walked are
comin’ to an end
I was your lover but I thought
I was your friend I loved you but
I thought I was your friend

So, turn around
Oh, turn around
And I will sing for you a song
I don’t know where you been
But you been gone too long

Oh, sweet lady stand beside the sea
Maybe you will find a little time to think of me
Won’t you please remember what I tried so hard
to be? Yeah, remember what I tried so hard to be

So, turn around
Oh, turn around
Yeah, and I will sing for you a song
And I don’t know where you been
But you been gone too long

Too long
I said, you been gone too long
You been gone too long

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The lyrics to Turn Around are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Billy Joel used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Turn Around have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Billy Joel 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 Turn Around by Billy Joel. 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 Turn Around" means the words set to the music of Turn Around, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Billy Joel. 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 Turn Around and the lyrics to Turn Around are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Billy Joel who came here looking just for the lyrics to Turn Around, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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