Lyrics to
You Can Fly

This version of You Can Fly was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1974.

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Expanse of land that would cushion your fall
As you tumble down from the sky
Marble cakes of delicious design and
They’re yours, you can fly
I have no wings but I wish that I had
I have dreams about it every night
And I can soar with the wind in my face
On my flight, on my flight
Won’t you try and just bother
Won’t you bother to care
And then somehow or other
You’ll be there

Cotton clouds look like mountainous land
Covered by December snow
And I can see from my majestic view
Down below, yes I know

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About Lyrics and You Can Fly by Reo Speedwagon

When you decide to study the lyrics to You Can Fly, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Reo Speedwagon. Some of the lyrics to You Can Fly have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Reo Speedwagon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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