Lyrics to
Glad When You’re Gone

This version of Glad When You’Re Gone was released by Nazareth in 1974.

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Now you say that you’re leavin’
Well it can’t be too soon
And you spend all of my money
You knocked my guitar out of tune.

Well you say you’re sick and tired
Tired of having me around
And you call me cheatin’ liar
You drove my car into the ground.

And I’ll be glad when you’re gone
Yes I’ll be glad when you’re gone
And when you walk out that door
Darlin’ please don’t come back no more

Now I wish I’d never known you
And I wish we’d never met
I was drunk you gave me whiskey
When I was ill you called the vet.

Well you say that it’s over
And you think you’ll bring me down
If you come back lookin’ for me
I’ll be out there on the town.

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Glad When You’Re Gone. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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About Lyrics and Glad When You’Re Gone by Nazareth

The lyrics to Glad When You’Re Gone are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Nazareth used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Glad When You’Re Gone have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Nazareth 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 Glad When You’Re Gone by Nazareth. 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 Glad When You’Re Gone" means the words set to the music of Glad When You’Re Gone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Glad When You’Re Gone and the lyrics to Glad When You’Re Gone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Glad When You’Re Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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