Lyrics to
You

Released by Three Dog Night in 1971
From the Album: Harmony |

This version of You was released by Three Dog Night in 1971.

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You, you I see in my mirror in the morning
Instead of seeing me I see you
I see your face,
Inside me is a growing need for your embrace
In the light of day though our faces meet
Some one there might see so we never speak
Though its wrong I know, still I love you so
Ah, it’s you

You, my sweetest joy
I can’t afford the best of life
I’m just a hard working boy
It’s you giving your love to me
I can’t let you hurt yourself by being seen with me
Meeting in shadows you friends must never know
That we are lovers
Although it hurts me so
For you see no one must see the precious love your giving me
Ah, ah, ooh, ooh

In the light of day, though our faces meet
Some one there might see so we never speak
Though it’s wrong I know still I love you so
Ah, you I see, I see you in my mirror in the morning
Instead of seeing me I see you
I see your face
And inside me is a growing need of your embrace
You, ah, I see you
You, I see you, I see you
You, I see you


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Three Dog Night has released many songs over the years besides You. Three Dog Night released songs from 1968 to 1976 spanning across albums like Three Dog Night, Suitable For Framing, It Ain't Easy, Naturally, Harmony, Seven Separate Fools, Cyan, Hard Labor, Coming Down Your Way, and American Pastime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Three Dog Night.

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About Lyrics and You by Three Dog Night

When you decide to study the lyrics to You, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Three Dog Night. Some of the lyrics to You have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Three Dog Night and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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