Shapes Of Things

Album: Birdland (1966)
Charted: 3 11
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  • Shapes of things before my eyes
    Just teach me to despise
    Will time make men more wise?

    Here within my lonely frame
    My eyes just heard my brain
    But will it seem the same?

    Come tomorrow, will I be older?
    Come tomorrow, may be a soldier
    Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today?

    Now the trees are almost green
    But will they still be seen
    When time and tide have been?

    Fallin' into your passing hands
    Please don't destroy these lands
    Don't make them desert sands

    Come tomorrow, will I be older?
    Come tomorrow, may be a soldier
    Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today?

    Soon I hope that I will find
    Thoughts deep within my mind
    That won't displace my kind Writer/s: Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Kunal Somaiya from Mumbai, IndiaSomehow 'For your Love' has to be the best Yardbird Single, Shapes of things is a near second.
  • D. R. from Okc, OkDefinitive Yardbird stuff - I wish the footage was with all the guys that recorded it. But hey, Chris Dreja does a decent job taking over Samwell-Smith's bass duties. But woops, Jimmy seems to have a way out of tune string there - unfortunate. Jimmy was great, but Jeff was way cool.
  • Craig from Midpines, CaI certainly agree that Shapes Of Things is one of (if not the) greatest songs the Yardbirds ever recorded. But why on earth is it listed under this 2003 release, rather than under its original recorded version, which was released in 1966?
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