Lyrics to
Turn To Stone

This version of Turn To Stone was released by Joe Walsh in 1974.

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Hey now the well run dry
Pages of the book on fire
Read the writing …on the wall…

Hoedown, say showdown
Everywhere you look
they’re fighting…Hear the call…

And you know its getting stronger,
It can’t last very much longer
Turn to stone

Well there’s a change in the wind
You know the signs don’t lie
Such a strange feeling and I don’t know why
Its takin’… such a long time …

Backyard people and they work all day
Tired of the speeches
And the way the reasons they keep changin’…
Just to make the Words Rhyme…

And you know its getting stronger,
Can’t fake ’em out much longer
Turn to stone

And you know its getting stronger,
It can’t last very much longer
Turn to stone

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About Lyrics and Turn To Stone by Joe Walsh

The lyrics for Turn To Stone are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Joe Walsh. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Turn To Stone 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 Turn To Stone - Joe Walsh 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 Turn To Stone by Joe Walsh 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 Turn To Stone" means the words set to the music of Turn To Stone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Walsh. 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 To Stone and the lyrics to Turn To Stone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Walsh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Turn To Stone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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