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It’s Too Late (To Love Me Now)

This version of It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now) was released by Dolly Parton in 1978.

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It’s too late
You say you want me, and it’s too late
Once my love for you was so great
But it’s too late to love me now
It’s too bad
You say you need me, and it’s too bad
I know the feelin’ and it’s so sad
But it’s too late to love me now
It’s too late to love me now

Don’t you know how hard I tried to hold out just for you?
Lovin’ you from mem’ry day by day
Then someone came into my life, turned my dreams around
He’s takin’ all the love you threw away

It’s too late
You say you want me, and it’s too late
Once my love for you was so great
But it’s too late to love me now
It’s too late to love me now

Don’t you know how hard I tried to hold out just for you?
Lovin’ you from mem’ry day by day
Then someone came into my life, turned my world around
He’s takin’ all the love you threw away

It’s too late
You say you need me, and it’s too late
Once my love for you was so great
But it’s too late to love me now
It’s too late to love me now

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When you decide to study the lyrics to It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now) 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 It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now)" means the words set to the music of It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now) and the lyrics to It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S Too Late (To Love Me Now), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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