Lyrics to
Welcome Home

This version of Welcome Home was released by Carole King in 1978.

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I have opened up my mind to things I was afraid of
Done things I’ve never done before
Taken a chance and seen just what the world is made of
Nothing is the same any more

At times I feel a golden spirit coming through me
Thinking of my life and what it’s given to me

I will live within that spirit ever knowing
I’m where I’m supposed to be
Welcome home

In the waters I can see a clear reflection
Of the force that’s all around
There’s a harmony of season and direction
This is surely sacred ground

Sweet life is everywhere as we stand in the clover
Feel the circle magic, let it take us over

And through all that I’ve been blessed with, I feel certain
I’m where I’m supposed to be
Welcome home

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Welcome Home. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Welcome Home by Carole King

The lyrics to Welcome Home are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Welcome Home 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 Welcome Home 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 Welcome Home" means the words set to the music of Welcome Home, 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 Welcome Home and the lyrics to Welcome Home 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 Welcome Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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