Lyrics to
You Could Show Me

This version of You Could Show Me was released by Barry Manilow in 1979.

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I don’t know how to begin
To let myself let you in
But you
Maybe you could show me
There’s so much more I would say
If someone showed me the way
Like you
Maybe you could show me
I’ve been so used to getting what I want
Doing what I want to do
I’ve always been the one who took the lead
Now I find I need
I need to follow you
So won’t you help me come through
My future’s long overdue
It’s time
I think I’m ready now
And you could show me how

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Barry Manilow has released many songs over the years besides You Could Show Me. Barry Manilow released songs from 1973 to 2008 spanning across albums like Barry Manilow I, Barry Manilow II, Tryin' To Get The Feeling, This One's For You, Even Now, One Voice, Barry, If I Should Love Again, Here Comes The Night, 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, Manilow, Swing Street, Barry Manilow, Because It's Christmas, Showstoppers, Singing With The Big Bands, Summer Of '78, Manilow Sings Sinatra, Here At The Mayflower, A Christmas Gift Of Love, Scores: Songs From Copacabana And Harmony, The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties, The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties, The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies, In The Swing Of Christmas, and The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Barry Manilow.

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About Lyrics and You Could Show Me by Barry Manilow

The lyrics to You Could Show Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Barry Manilow used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to You Could Show Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Barry Manilow and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to You Could Show Me by Barry Manilow. 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 Could Show Me" means the words set to the music of You Could Show Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barry Manilow. 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 Could Show Me and the lyrics to You Could Show Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barry Manilow who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Could Show Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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