Lyrics to
Wonder Why We Ever Go Home

This version of Wonder Why We Ever Go Home was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1977.

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Years grow shorter, not longer,
the more you’ve been on your own.
Feelin’s for movin’ grow stronger’
so you wonder why you ever go home,
wonder why you ever go home.

People are movin’ so quickly.
Humor’s in need of repair.
Same occupations and same obligations,
they’ve really got nothing to share,
like drivin’ around with no spare.

River gets deeper not shallow,
the further you move down the stream.
Wonderin’ if I can keep her as I
race to keep up with my dreams.
How they shine and glitter and gleam.

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About Lyrics and Wonder Why We Ever Go Home by Jimmy Buffett

The lyrics for Wonder Why We Ever Go Home are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Jimmy Buffett. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Wonder Why We Ever Go Home 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 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home - Jimmy Buffett 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 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home by Jimmy Buffett 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 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" means the words set to the music of Wonder Why We Ever Go Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. 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 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home and the lyrics to Wonder Why We Ever Go Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wonder Why We Ever Go Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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