Lyrics to
We All Have To Be Alone

This version of We All Have To Be Alone was released by Carole King in 1976.

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Once I told you without feeling
When you came to me in sorrow
There’s a truth that life’s revealing
We all have to be alone

You only wanted someone to hold you
Tell you she’d be there tomorrow
But instead I only told you
We all have to be alone

Then I was amazed to see
How quickly you agreed with me
If that’s the way it has to be
There’s nothing left to say
No reason left to stay
Besides I’ve got a lot of better things to do today

So my world grew so much colder
With little love to lend or borrow
And I found out as I grew older
We all have to be alone

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About Lyrics and We All Have To Be Alone by Carole King

The lyrics to We All Have To Be Alone are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to We All Have To Be Alone have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carole King 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 We All Have To Be Alone by Carole King. 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 We All Have To Be Alone" means the words set to the music of We All Have To Be Alone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 We All Have To Be Alone and the lyrics to We All Have To Be Alone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to We All Have To Be Alone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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