Lyrics to
Goodbye Don’t Mean I’m Gone

Released by Carole King in 1972
From the Album: Rhymes & Reasons |

This version of Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone was released by Carole King in 1972.

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Don’t it seem like the time goes on
And here we are still carrying on
Reaching out for one another
Like a telephone call from an old friend or a brother
And you are there to share this song in the making
Goodbye don’t mean I’m gone

I know how alone you are
When it’s so hard to be so far
From the ones who mean the most to you
When you would so much rather have them close to you
I hope you know you haven’t been forsaken
Goodbye don’t mean I’m gone

I’ll never be what you think you see in me
If I can help you deal with what you see as real
That makes me glad to have known you

Missing you the way I do
You know I’d like to see more of you
But it’s all I can do to be a mother
(My baby’s in one hand, I’ve a pen in the other)
You know my love is always there for the taking
And goodbye don’t mean I’m gone


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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone by Carole King

The lyrics to Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carole King and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone by Carole King. 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 Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone" means the words set to the music of Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone and the lyrics to Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Goodbye Don’T Mean I’M Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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