Lyrics to
When You Close Your Eyes

Released by Carly Simon in 1972
From the Album: No Secrets |

This version of When You Close Your Eyes was released by Carly Simon in 1972.

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When you close your eyes do you see
White lorelei, she’s a dream
She’s not half as magic as she seems
But she’s so much fun to be with

When you close your eyes do you see
Places that you’ve never seen
Yet you’ve been there
You’ve been walking on the edges of a dream
And you’re so much fun to be with

Big surprise, you’ve been informed you’re not asleep
Hard as you try you were never really meant to weep

When you close your door with a sign
Do not disturd, are you disturbed to find
That it’s just as magic as it feels
And you’re so much fun to be with


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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides When You Close Your Eyes. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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The lyrics for When You Close Your Eyes are defined as the words making up the song released by Carly Simon in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to When You Close Your Eyes have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Carly Simon and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to When You Close Your Eyes by Carly Simon if you think through it. 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 You Close Your Eyes" means the words set to the music of When You Close Your Eyes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 You Close Your Eyes and the lyrics to When You Close Your Eyes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to When You Close Your Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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