Lyrics to
Volcano

This version of Volcano was released by The Band in 1971.

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Got my motor runnin’
Little girl, are you comin’
Keep your candle burning bright

Soon as you are ready
Hold that ladder steady
Come tread softly through the night

Don’t leave me in the dark
Like a ghost rider in your yard
Carving names in bark along the boulevard

I’d be a bushwhacker
Even be your hijacker
Keep your candle burning bright

When we cross that railroad track
There’ll be no turning back
Come tread softly through the night

Don’t leave me sitting here
Up on top of your fence
I’m like an alley cat up here, without a lick of sense

Volcano–I’m about to blow
Volcano–Gonna overflow
Volcano–Look out below

Don’t leave me empty-handed
Like a villain in the woods
Prowling around the grounds, trying to make off with the goods

Volcano–I’m about to blow
Volcano–Gonna overflow
Volcano–Look out below

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About Lyrics and Volcano by The Band

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

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