Lyrics to
Everytime You Leave

This version of Everytime You Leave was released by Emmylou Harris in 1979.

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Everytime you leave
You tear the soul from me
I die a little more each time part
I can’t control my dreams
My heart can’t seem to learn
To turn and lock its door when you return

I know that you’ll come back again
As soon as you get blue
And I know what will happen then
One kiss and I’ll give one to you

Everytime You leave
You tear the soul from me
But I want to live so I’ll forgive
Everytime you leave

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides Everytime You Leave. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

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About Lyrics and Everytime You Leave by Emmylou Harris

The lyrics to Everytime You Leave are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Emmylou Harris in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Everytime You Leave are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Emmylou Harris and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Everytime You Leave back when it was created.

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

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