Lyrics to
Winter

This version of Winter was released by The Rolling Stones in 1973.

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And it sure been a cold, cold winter
And the wind ain’t been blowin’ from the south
It’s sure been a cold, cold winter
And a lotta love is all burned out
It sure been a hard, hard winter
My feet been draggin’ ‘cross the ground
And I hope it’s gonna be a long, hot summer
And a lotta love will be burnin’ bright
And I wish I been out in California
When the lights on all the Christmas trees went out
But I been burnin’ my bell, book and candle
And the restoration plays have all gone ’round
It sure been a cold, cold winter
My feet been draggin’ ‘cross the ground
And the fields has all been brown and fallow
And the springtime take a long way around
Yeah, and I wish I been out in Stone Canyon
When the lights on all the Christmas trees went out
But I been burnin’ my bell, book and candle
And the restoration plays have all gone ’round
Sometimes I think about you, baby
Sometimes I cry about you
Sometimes I wanna wrap my coat around you
Sometimes I wanna keep you warm
Sometimes I wanna wrap my coat around you
Sometimes I wanna but I can’t afford you

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The Rolling Stones has released many songs over the years besides Winter. The Rolling Stones released songs from 1964 to 2005 spanning across albums like 12x5, The Rolling Stones, Out Of Our Heads, December's Children (And Everybody's), The Rolling Stones, Now!, Aftermath, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Between The Buttons, Flowers, Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St., Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, Black And Blue, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Stripped, Bridges To Babylon, Forty Licks, Rarities 1971-2003, and A Bigger Bang. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Rolling Stones.

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About Lyrics and Winter by The Rolling Stones

The lyrics to Winter are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by The Rolling Stones in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to Winter are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by The Rolling Stones and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Winter back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Winter by The Rolling Stones in a number of 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 Winter" means the words set to the music of Winter, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Rolling Stones. 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 Winter and the lyrics to Winter are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Rolling Stones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Winter, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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