Lyrics to You're A Big Girl Now

This version of You’Re A Big Girl Now was released by Bob Dylan in 1975.

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Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off-a my feet
And I’m back in the rain oh oh
And you’re on dry land
You made it there somehow
You’re a big girl now.

Bird on the horizon sitting on the fence
He’s singing his song for me at his own expense
And I’m just like that bird oh oh
Singing just for you
I hope that you can hear
Hear me singing through these tears.

Time is a jet plane it moves so fast
Oh but what a shame if all we’ve shared can’t last
I can change I swear oh oh
See what you can do
I can make it through
You can make it too.

Love is so simple to quote a phrase
You’ve known it all the time I’m learning it these days
Oh I know where I can find you oh oh
In somebody’s room
It’s a price I had to pay
You’re a big girl all the way.

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what’s the sense of changing horses in midstream ?
I’m going out of my mind oh oh
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we’ve been apart.

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About Lyrics and You’Re A Big Girl Now by Bob Dylan

The lyrics to You’Re A Big Girl Now are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bob Dylan used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to You’Re A Big Girl Now have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bob Dylan and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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