Lyrics to
You Gentle Me

This version of You Gentle Me was released by Carole King in 1974.

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When tempers flare to flame
When no one cares to listen while I’m trying to explain
You see the anger rise in me
And you calm me down again

Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you’re gentle to me

When rumor comes to call
Suspicion’s taking over and I’m back against the wall
You just smile assuringly
And my defenses fall

Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you’re gentle to me

When life seems so relentless, you gentle me
When my striving seems so senseless, you gentle me
You lift my spirits, I get higher by degree
When you’re gentle to me

When tension’s taking shape
When I feel the pressure building and it’s just too much to take
You touch the anxious need in me
With love for lovin’s sake

Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you’re gentle to me

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides You Gentle Me. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and You Gentle Me by Carole King

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

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

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