Lyrics to
We Don’t Live Here No More

This version of We Don’T Live Here No More was released by John Denver in 1973.

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Make believe you’re on a boat without water around.
Picture yourself at a circus without any clowns.
Pretend that you’re on a highway without any end.
Then empty the ashtray, sweep up the floor, put a lock on your door.
If somebody calls in the morning, just say we don’t live here no more.

Draw me a picture of an island without any seas.
Show me a map of the whole world without boundaries.
Build me a home without windows or doors to go in.
Then empty the ashtray, sweep up the floor, put a lock on your door.
If somebody calls in the morning, just say we don’t live here no more.

Dream of the time when the tides ebbing now rise again.
Then you will know that to die is not really to end.
Living and dying are both your most intimate friends.
So empty the ashtray, sweep up the floor, put a lock on your door.
If somebody calls in the morning, just say we don’t live here no more.
If somebody calls in the morning, just say we don’t live here no more.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to We Don’T Live Here No More, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by John Denver. Some of the lyrics to We Don’T Live Here No More have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Denver and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to We Don’T Live Here No More 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 We Don’T Live Here No More" means the words set to the music of We Don’T Live Here No More, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Don’T Live Here No More and the lyrics to We Don’T Live Here No More are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to We Don’T Live Here No More, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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