Lyrics to
You Are – I Am

This version of You Are – I Am was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1979.

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You are, you are,
You are the moment Martha’s madman came out of darkness,
You are the eyeglass of the nearly, nearly blind,
You are the footprint in the sand of Easter island,
You are the fusion in the furnace of the sun.

I am the captain cried across the lonely sea,
I am and I’ll be what I’ll be,
I am the soldier sang across the lonely field,
I am and I’ll do whatever I feel.

You are the time between solar fire and the silence,
You are the last chord in the symphony of the lost,
You are the sign between the high road and the low road,
You are the pen in the moving hand of time.

You are the last post played by the Alamo soldier,
You are a spaceman at the very edge of time,
You are the single shaft of sunlight in the night time,
You are the coolness in the very heat of the fire.

You are the moment Martha’s madman came out of darkness,
You are the eyeglass of the nearly, nearly blind,
You are, you are

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When you decide to study the lyrics to You Are – I Am, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to You Are – I Am have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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