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What’s On My Mind

This version of What’S On My Mind was released by Kansas in 1976.

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Well you told me that I was just not the one,
And you left me standing out in the cold
It’s been a long time and I’m so much better now
That I’m looking back and seeing it all
And for the first time there’s no pain in my life
Though it’s a long hard road that I’ve gone
We had a good thing and it made me a man cause I know

You got me goin’, pardon me my feelings are showing
I’m only saying what’s on my mind

Well I found you or maybe I found myself
And I think we knew it all of the time
We fit together just like a lock and a key
And we opened up each other’s minds
Yeah, I was laughing ‘caus there was no room to cry
There was too much growing to do
We had a good time and it ain’t over yet ’cause I know

You came from nowhere and you just jumped in my life,
And I know it never will be the same
You made me love you and now I’m home once again
No, I never want to leave you no more
‘Caus I’m attached to the better half of myself
And there’s nowhere else that I’d rather be
You filled an empty, you fixed a bad broken heart, and I know

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The lyrics for What’S On My Mind are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Kansas. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to What’S On My Mind have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for What’S On My Mind - Kansas and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to What’S On My Mind by Kansas in multiple ways. 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 What’S On My Mind" means the words set to the music of What’S On My Mind, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kansas. 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 What’S On My Mind and the lyrics to What’S On My Mind are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kansas who came here looking just for the lyrics to What’S On My Mind, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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