Lyrics to After You - Decade Lyrics

This version of After You was released by Diana Ross in 1976.

Our Diana Ross Songs profile has After You lyrics from 1976 and most if not all of the lyrics by Diana Ross that we have here at Decade Lyrics.

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Raining again
I ought to get out from under
Sometimes I wonder
Sometimes I don’t wonder at all

And as for loving again
Somewhere somebody might need me
But where would it lead me?
I’d just be rising to fall

Love was easy to believe in
When you wanted me yesterday
But I couldn’t feel the touch of time upon tomorrow

After you
What am I gonna be?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through

After you
How am I gonna find
The me I left behind
That I’ll meet after you

Drifting again
From place to place without reason
Season to season
I just keep running away

And as for people again
I’m just a girl who discovers
Now and then lovers
Who never ask me to stay

Love was easy to believe in
When I walked in the light of you
Now I’m walking by myself
And all I see is darkness

After you
What am I gonna be?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through

After you
How am I gonna find
The me I left behind
That I’ll meet after you

Raining again
I ought to get out from under
Sometimes I wonder
Sometimes I don’t wonder at all

After you
How am I gonna find
The me I left behind
That I’ll meet after you

After you
What am I gonna be
You took a part of me
As you were passing through

Raining again
Raining again
Raining again

After you
What am I gonna be
Raining again

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Diana Ross has released many songs over the years besides After You. Diana Ross released songs from 1970 to 2006 spanning across albums like Everything Is Everything, Diana Ross, Surrender / I'm Still Waiting, Lady Sings The Blues, Touch Me In The Morning, Last Time I Saw Him, Diana & Marvin, Live At Caesar's Palace, Baby It's Me, The Wiz, Ross, The Boss, diana, To Love Again, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Silk Electric, Swept Away, Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm And Blues, Workin' Overtime, The Force Behind The Power, Take Me Higher, Every Day Is A New Day, I Love You, and Blue. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Diana Ross.

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About Lyrics and After You by Diana Ross

The lyrics to After You are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Diana Ross in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to After You are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Diana Ross and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for After You back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to After You by Diana Ross in a number of 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 After You" means the words set to the music of After You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. 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 After You and the lyrics to After You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to After You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.