Lyrics to
Gone Long Gone

This version of Gone Long Gone was released by Chicago in 1978.

Our Chicago Songs profile has Gone Long Gone lyrics from 1978 and most if not all of the lyrics by Chicago that we have here at Decade Lyrics.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Chicago or about the 1970s in general.

I thought for the rest of my life
You’d see me through it
Guess all along I knew it
Nothing mattered everything was all right
When you saw to it
Before I knew it you were gone long gone
You said you would always be there
Well I believed you
I was a fool to need you
Gave my love then I gave you my heart
And then you flew it
Before I knew it
You were gone long gone
Hard facing another day
Just crying the night away
Said more than I meant to say
When I knew that you were gone
I thought for the rest of my life
You’d see me through it
Yes all along I knew it
Didn’t matter and it didn’t seem right
And then you flew it
Before I knew it you were gone long gone.
You were gone long gone

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Chicago?

Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Gone Long Gone. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1978 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Gone Long Gone by Chicago

The lyrics to Gone Long Gone are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Chicago in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Gone Long Gone are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Chicago and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Gone Long Gone back when it was created.

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

More Songs & Lyrics by Chicago

Visit our Chicago profile for more Chicago songs, lyrics & info!

)