Lyrics to
You Take My Breath Away

This version of You Take My Breath Away was released by Queen in 1976.

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Look into my eyes and you’ll see
I’m the only one
You’ve captured my love
Stolen my heart
Changed my life
Every time you make a move
You destroy my mind
And the way you touch
I lose control and shiver deep inside
You take my breath away

You can reduce me to tears
With a single sigh
Every breath that you take –
Any sound that you make
Is a whisper in my ear
I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die
If you dismiss me from your love
You take my breath away

So please don’t go
Don’t leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you
Anywhere you go, I’ll be right behind you
Right until the ends of the earth
I’ll get no sleep till I find you to tell you
That you just take my breath
away

I will find you…etc
I’ll get no sleep til I find you to
tell you when I’ve found you –
I love you

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About Lyrics and You Take My Breath Away by Queen

The lyrics for You Take My Breath Away are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Queen. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to You Take My Breath Away have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for You Take My Breath Away - Queen and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to You Take My Breath Away by Queen in multiple ways. 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 Take My Breath Away" means the words set to the music of You Take My Breath Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Take My Breath Away and the lyrics to You Take My Breath Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Take My Breath Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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