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You Still Want Her

This version of You Still Want Her was released by Carole King in 1979.

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From the shelter of your solitude you see her
Running circles ’round the emptiness within
And you wonder what it’s been like to be her
As you feel yourself awakening

Though she fills her life between with new adventure
There’s confusion in her eyes each time you meet
You don’t think she’s gonna last another winter
With all the snow she’s rakin’ in

You can’t believe you still want her
After all these years of knowing her so well
All the same you’d willingly consign yourself
To a life of hell

You would think by now you’d see it in perspective
She’s too insecure to ever really change
You’ve convinced yourself this time you’ll be objective
You won’t need any breakin’ in

There’s no reason to believe it will be different
She’s still playing games and running from herself
But you’ve always thought your love for her could save her
And that’s how you get taken in

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When you decide to study the lyrics to You Still Want Her, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Carole King. Some of the lyrics to You Still Want Her 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 Still Want Her 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 Still Want Her" means the words set to the music of You Still Want Her, 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 Still Want Her and the lyrics to You Still Want Her 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 Still Want Her, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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