Lyrics to
When I Stop Dreaming

This version of When I Stop Dreaming was released by Emmylou Harris in 1977.

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The worst that I’ve ever been hurt
In my life
The first time I ever have
Wanted to die
Was the night when you told me
You loved someone new
And you asked me if I could forget

When I stop dreaming
That’s when I’ll stop loving you

You may teach the flowers
To bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble
And teach it to grow
You may teach all the raindrops
To return to the clouds
But you can’t teach my heart
To forget

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About Lyrics and When I Stop Dreaming by Emmylou Harris

When you decide to study the lyrics to When I Stop Dreaming, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to When I Stop Dreaming have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Emmylou Harris and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to When I Stop Dreaming 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 When I Stop Dreaming" means the words set to the music of When I Stop Dreaming, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. 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 When I Stop Dreaming and the lyrics to When I Stop Dreaming are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to When I Stop Dreaming, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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