Lyrics to
You’re Something New

This version of You’Re Something New was released by Carole King in 1974.

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When I left the world behind me
Retreating through the past
You reached out to find me
And brought me back at last
You’ve shown me something
Beyond my looking glass
Now love’s in my reflection
In the shadow that you cast on me, and you
You’re something new

You’re something new
Under the sun
Under the moon, you’re the light of creation
And I knew
That I’d come to love you

Life seemed oh-so-temporary
A case of here-and-gone
And I survived, just barely
Until you came along
But now each day I’m given
Is one more day I know
A love that’s so unselfish
It’s a pleasure just to show my love to you
You’re something new

You’re something new, under the sun
Under the moon, you’re the light of creation

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides You’Re Something New. 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’Re Something New by Carole King

The lyrics to You’Re Something New are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to You’Re Something New have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carole King 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’Re Something New by Carole King. 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 Something New" means the words set to the music of You’Re Something New, 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’Re Something New and the lyrics to You’Re Something New 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’Re Something New, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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