Lyrics to
If I Gotta Leave

This version of If I Gotta Leave was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1971.

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They could never take you away from me
Oh baby, never replace the tenderness of your smile
I couldn’t leave now if I wanted to
Everything I do I wanna do with you
Oh no, baby
If I gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They could offer me the world and all its gold
Oh baby, put me on a ship that’s sailing out to sea
Set me down on a lonely track
But I’d find a way to come running back
Oh no, baby
If I gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They may try to find a way to deep us from each other
Try to find a way to keep us far apart
But there’s nowhere in the world they could send me to
To keep my love away from you
Oh no, baby
If I gotta leave
I wanna leave with you
I really wanna leave with you
I really wanna leave with you

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About Lyrics and If I Gotta Leave by Olivia Newton-John

When you decide to study the lyrics to If I Gotta Leave, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Olivia Newton-John. Some of the lyrics to If I Gotta Leave have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Olivia Newton-John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to If I Gotta Leave 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 If I Gotta Leave" means the words set to the music of If I Gotta Leave, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. 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 If I Gotta Leave and the lyrics to If I Gotta Leave are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to If I Gotta Leave, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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