Lyrics to
Getting In My Way

This version of Getting In My Way was released by Dolly Parton in 1977.

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I wish I could forget you, but I won’t
I wish I loved another, but I don’t
It’s just the same, day after day
Your memory keeps getting in my way
But I’m hoping I will be alright
But I don’t even sleep at night
I close my eyes I see your face
Your memory keeps getting in my way

I don’t know why I can’t forget you
I don’t see why I should let you
Keep messing up my mind with all those thoughts of yesterday
Your memory keeps getting in my way

It’s easy for someone to lie
I’m saying I’ll forget you and I’ll try
Here’s hoping that I will someday
Your memory keeps getting in my way

I don’t know why I can’t forget you
I don’t see why I should let you
Keep messing up my mind with all those thoughts of yesterday
Your memory keeps getting in my way

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Getting In My Way. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Getting In My Way by Dolly Parton

The lyrics for Getting In My Way are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Dolly Parton. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Getting In My Way have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Getting In My Way - Dolly Parton and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Getting In My Way by Dolly Parton in multiple 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 Getting In My Way" means the words set to the music of Getting In My Way, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 Getting In My Way and the lyrics to Getting In My Way are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Getting In My Way, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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