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What’s On Your Mind

This version of What’S On Your Mind was released by John Denver in 1979.

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You know sometimes I can’t sleep at night. I can’t quiet my heart or my mind.
I toss and I turn, I ache and I burn, I get caught in the passing of time.
It’s like too many miles, too many heartaches, too much that needs to be done.
Yes, and too many sidewalks, too many people, too many hours alone.
What’s on your mind and what’s on my mind is really quite the same.
I’ve been working so hard and I’m ready to play, I know just the right game.
What’s on your mind is what’s on my mind. That’s the way it’s gonna be.
I’m gonna find me a place I can hide, I want you right next to me.

Oh, I’ve never seen a more beautiful day, it’s my favorite time of the year.
The colors are changing, she’s rearranging and I’m so glad to be here.
I’ve been up and around, I’ve been lost, I’ve been found, I’ve seen love face to face in my dreams.
And the things that I know and the things that I show are not always just what they seem.
What’s on your mind is what’s on my mind, it’s just that way.
It’s like catching a ride on a beautiful river, let it carry us all away.
What’s on your mind is what’s on my mind is really nothing new.
I want to get you alone, I want to make you my own, baby, I want to make love with you.
What’s on your mind is what’s on my mind, is really quite the same.
I’ve been working so hard and I’m ready to play baby, I know just the right game.
What’s on your mind is what’s on my mind is really nothing new.
I want to get you alone, I want to make you my own, baby, I want to make love with you.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides What’S On Your Mind. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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You can understand the lyrics to What’S On Your Mind 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 What’S On Your Mind" means the words set to the music of What’S On Your Mind, 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 What’S On Your Mind and the lyrics to What’S On Your Mind 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 What’S On Your Mind, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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