Lyrics to
Up The Ladder To The Roof

This version of Up The Ladder To The Roof was released by Bette Midler in 1977.

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Come with me, come with me
and we shall run across the sky.
We illuminate the night.
Ohhhh, I, I will try and guide you
to better times and brighter days.
Just don’t be afraid.

Come on up the ladder to the roof
where we can see heaven much better.
Let’s go up the ladder to the roof
where we can be closer to heaven.

Stay with me, stay with me
and we shall let expression sing.
Hear freedom ringin’.
Ohhh, memories of yesterday’s broken dreams.
Hey, don’t you know, don’t you know
that they are gonna fade away?
Don’t be afraid.

Come on up the ladder to the roof
where we can see heaven much better.
Let’s go up the ladder to the roof
where we can be closer to heaven.

We’ll laugh, I’ll tell you the story of love.
How it is, the happiness in it, baby.
We combine these thoughts and together we will travel
to the fountain of lovingness.
I will never, never, never, never,
never leave you, baby.
As we grow older and older and older, babe.

Standing strong we’ll say:
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go?
Say, don’t you wanna go

up the ladder to the roof
where we can see heaven much better.
Let’s go up the ladder to the roof
where we can be closer to heaven.

Let’s go up the, up the, up the ladder to heaven.
Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven.

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Bette Midler has released many songs over the years besides Up The Ladder To The Roof. Bette Midler released songs from 1972 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, Songs For The New Depression, Broken Blossom, Live At Last, Thighs And Whispers, The Rose, Divine Madness, No Frills, Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, Beaches, Some People's Lives, For The Boys, Gypsy, Bette Of Roses, Bathhouse Betty, Bette, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, and Cool Yule. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bette Midler.

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About Lyrics and Up The Ladder To The Roof by Bette Midler

The lyrics to Up The Ladder To The Roof are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bette Midler used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Up The Ladder To The Roof have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bette Midler 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 Up The Ladder To The Roof by Bette Midler. 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 Up The Ladder To The Roof" means the words set to the music of Up The Ladder To The Roof, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Up The Ladder To The Roof and the lyrics to Up The Ladder To The Roof are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Up The Ladder To The Roof, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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