Lyrics to
Going, Going, Gone

This version of Going, Going, Gone was released by Bob Dylan in 1974.

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I’ve just reached a place
Where the willow don’t bend
There’s not much more to be said
It’s the top of the end
I am going
I am going
I am gone.

I am closing the book
On the pages and the text
And I don’t really care
Of what happens next
I am just going
I am going
I am gone.

I been hanging on threads
I been playing it straight
Now I’ve just got to cut loose
Before it gets late
So I am going
I am going
I am gone.

Grandma said, “Boy, go and follow your heart
And you’ll be fine at the end of the line
All that’s gold doesn’t shine
Don’t you and your own true love ever part”

I been walking the road
I been living on the edge
Now I’ve just got to go
Before I get to the ledge
So I am going
I am just going
I am gone.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Going, Going, Gone, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Bob Dylan. Some of the lyrics to Going, Going, Gone have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Dylan and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Going, Going, Gone if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Going, Going, Gone" means the words set to the music of Going, Going, Gone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Dylan. 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 Going, Going, Gone and the lyrics to Going, Going, Gone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Dylan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Going, Going, Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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