Lyrics to
After You Leave Me

This version of After You Leave Me was released by Styx in 1972.

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You come to me girl
Tears are in your eyes
Your head’s bowed in sorrow
You whisper your good-byes

There’s nothing I can tell you
To make you want to stay
So let me ask one question
Before you slip away

After you leave me
Where can I go?
After you leave me
What will I do?

I’ve seen this moment coming
For such a long, long time
I’ve laid awake for hours
Rehearsing every line

But now that it’s here girl
Can’t think of anything to say
So let me ask one question
Before you slip away

After you leave me
Where can I go?
After you leave me
What will I do?

Every time that
I get next to her
I’m hung up in this ring of fire

If I love her
Should I let her go
Or should I beg on a bended knee?

How much longer
Lord, I just don’t know
I just can’t take it girl
I’m breaking up o’er you

After you leave me
Where can I go?
After you leave me
What will I do?

After you
After you leave

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About Lyrics and After You Leave Me by Styx

The lyrics to After You Leave Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Styx used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to After You Leave Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Styx 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 After You Leave Me by Styx. 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 Leave Me" means the words set to the music of After You Leave Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Styx. 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 Leave Me and the lyrics to After You Leave Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Styx who came here looking just for the lyrics to After You Leave Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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