Lyrics to
You’re The One Who Knows

This version of You’Re The One Who Knows was released by Carole King in 1977.

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Waking up alone, I find my mind is reaching out to distant corners
Crystal mourners are drawing me to Babylon
Can you really stay yourself and flow with dedication
You’re the one who knows and now you’re gone

We got a feeling and I’m gonna try to keep it for a long time
It was a wrong time, though we had so much to travel on
Can you hold the love I gave in joyful consummation
You’re the one who knows and now you’re gone

Can you see my reflection in the facets of the prisms that you gave me
One day I am yellow
One day I am blue – can you save me

I’ll be yours forever in the secret magic forest
That we dreamed about together
Can you see the color that I am today
I know I wanna stay in a good way

Waking up alone I find my mind is calling out
And I know you feel me
You know the real me is whatever color love takes on
Can you live with someone who’s a mistress of illusion
You’re the one who knows and now you’re gone

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides You’Re The One Who Knows. 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 The One Who Knows by Carole King

The lyrics to You’Re The One Who Knows are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to You’Re The One Who Knows 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 The One Who Knows 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 The One Who Knows" means the words set to the music of You’Re The One Who Knows, 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 The One Who Knows and the lyrics to You’Re The One Who Knows 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 The One Who Knows, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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