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We’ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon)

This version of We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) was released by Eric Clapton in 1975.

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God is warning the nations,
Warning them in every way
To turn away from the evil
And seek the Lord and pray.

We’ve been told that God done warned us,
Jesus coming soon.
We’ve been told that God done warned us,
Jesus coming soon.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Eric Clapton. Some of the lyrics to We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eric Clapton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) 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’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon)" means the words set to the music of We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) and the lyrics to We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to We’Ve Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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