Lyrics to
Go My Way

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Go my way and I’ll be good to you
Go my way and your dreams will all come true
In the sunset the wild waves are callin’
My shadow is followin’ you
Go my way and I’ll take you by the hand
Believe in me and I’ll do the best I can
I can’t be anything but just what I am
I can’t help it if I’m in love with you
Why must I sail my ship alone without a friend
My thoughts are on you
I dare not ask again

Go my way it’s the only way to go
If things aren’t workin’ out you’ll be the first to know
Come on along and together we’ll go
Please love me and say that you’ll be mine

Why must I sail my ship alone without a friend
My thoughts are on you
I dare not ask again

Go my way it’s the only way to go
If things aren’t workin’ out you’ll be the first to know
Come on along and together we’ll go
Please love me and say that you’ll be mine

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Gordon Lightfoot has released many songs over the years besides Go My Way. Gordon Lightfoot released songs from 1966 to 2004 spanning across albums like Lightfoot!, The Way I Feel, Back Here On Earth, Did She Mention My Name, Sunday Concert, Sit Down Young Stranger / If You Could Read My Mind, Summer Side Of Life, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records, Sundown, Cold On The Shoulder, Summertime Dream, Endless Wire, Dream Street Rose, Shadows, Salute, East Of Midnight, Waiting For You, A Painter Passing Through, and Harmony. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gordon Lightfoot.

About Lyrics and Go My Way by Gordon Lightfoot

The lyrics for Go My Way are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Go 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 Go My Way - Gordon Lightfoot 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 Go My Way by Gordon Lightfoot 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 Go My Way" means the words set to the music of Go My Way, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gordon Lightfoot. 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 Go My Way and the lyrics to Go My Way are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gordon Lightfoot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Go 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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