Lyrics to
You Can Make Me Free

This version of You Can Make Me Free was released by Billy Joel in 1971.

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You can make me free
You can make me smile
You can make me be like a little child
You can melt the ice that chills my body
You can dry my ev’ry tear
You can make the lonely hours disappear

You can make me free
You can make me rise
You can make me see
So open up my eyes
Don’t you know my only real momerrts are the
ones I spend with you?
How I long to drink some wine again with you?
I can take the skies
I can soar like a bird
With his heart full of song, yeah, yeah
Won’t you color my eyes?
I’ve been writing so long

You can make me free
You can make me cry
You can make it so much better if you only try
And if I must wait a lonely lifetime
Until I am with you. my love
I will wait when you’ll be what I’m dreaming of
I can take the skies
I can soar like a bird
With his heart full of song, yeah, yeah
Won’t you color my eyes?
I’ve been writing so long

You can make me free
You can make me cry
You can make it so much better if you only try
And if I must wait a lonely lifetime

Until I am with you, my love
I will wait when you’ll be what I’m dreaming of
You can make me free
You can make me cry
I know you know that you can make it
so much better If you would only try, yeah. yeah. yeah

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About Lyrics and You Can Make Me Free by Billy Joel

The lyrics for You Can Make Me Free are defined as the words making up the song released by Billy Joel in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You Can Make Me Free have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Billy Joel and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to You Can Make Me Free by Billy Joel if you think through it. 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 Make Me Free" means the words set to the music of You Can Make Me Free, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Billy Joel. 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 Make Me Free and the lyrics to You Can Make Me Free are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Billy Joel who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Can Make Me Free, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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