Lyrics to
If You Really Loved Me

This version of If You Really Loved Me was released by Willie Nelson in 1972.

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If you really loved me
You wouldn’t treat me this way
And you’d be kind enough
To leave some life while I’m away
And I might cry when you go
But I won’t die when you go
And someday someone just might come along

If you really loved me
You wouldn’t test me this way
You wouldn’t leave the choice of leaving up to me
But I’m too proud to survive
Cause I’m more dead than alive
Cause someday someone just might come along

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About Lyrics and If You Really Loved Me by Willie Nelson

The lyrics to If You Really Loved Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Willie Nelson used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to If You Really Loved Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Willie Nelson and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to If You Really Loved Me by Willie Nelson. 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 You Really Loved Me" means the words set to the music of If You Really Loved Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 You Really Loved Me and the lyrics to If You Really Loved Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to If You Really Loved Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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