Lyrics to
Waterfall

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Something’s going down like a waterfall
Some strong feeling’s some old love
I saw you and it made no sense at all
Now I feel like there’s too much caffeine in my blood

Like a waterfall goin’ down
Like a waterfall washing me down
Spinnin’ me around
Lord, and I’m drownin’
Like a waterfall going down
Just like a waterfall washing me down
Like a waterfall going down and down and down

You’re an old lover making new contact
Making those cold defenses melt
And though lying in your arms is after the fact
Once again I’m feeling like I’ve never felt

it’s like a waterfall going down
Like a waterfall washing me down
Spinnin’me round

Lord, and I’m drowning
Like a waterfall going down
Just like a waterfall washing me down
Like a waterfall going down and down and down

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Waterfall. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

About Lyrics and Waterfall by Carly Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Waterfall, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Carly Simon. Some of the lyrics to Waterfall have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carly Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Waterfall if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Waterfall" means the words set to the music of Waterfall, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Waterfall and the lyrics to Waterfall are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Waterfall, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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