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When The Earth Moves Again

This version of When The Earth Moves Again was released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971.

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In golden Hannibal Carthage days, marching on to Rome,
Knocking on the door and finding nobody home there.
Rome she cut our armies down and left them in the snow,
So now I go to where I come from,
Now I go home to the sun.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again my friend,
Let the lady ride on through,
When the earth moves again.

Egyptian kings they sing of gods and pyramids of stone,
And they left the deserts clean, and they left the deserts golden,
And shinin’ as a beacon for those that need a road.
(I do)
Into the day and through the night,
We go and find our way home.

When the earth moves again,
My love to all the people I leave behind.
Search out the new ground around you,
When the earth moves again.

Your head can pull your body around ‘n you can
Leave whenever you can find the ground.
Take what you find on the ground,
Sea foam glass is sand.

If you’ve only lived on earth (If you haven’t lived in heaven),
you’ve never seen the sun,
Or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here,
And if you care to see the future, just look into the eyes
Of your young, dancing children;
Don’t be afraid of our ways.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again,
Watch the lady ride and sigh,
When the earth moves again.

Moses, Moses, the Red Sea closes
Over you when you least expect it to,
When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again.

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About Lyrics and When The Earth Moves Again by Jefferson Airplane

The lyrics for When The Earth Moves Again are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Jefferson Airplane. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to When The Earth Moves Again 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 When The Earth Moves Again - Jefferson Airplane 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 When The Earth Moves Again by Jefferson Airplane 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 When The Earth Moves Again" means the words set to the music of When The Earth Moves Again, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jefferson Airplane. 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 The Earth Moves Again and the lyrics to When The Earth Moves Again are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jefferson Airplane who came here looking just for the lyrics to When The Earth Moves Again, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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