Lyrics to
Now That You’ve Gone

This version of Now That You’Ve Gone was released by Chicago in 1972.

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Take a closer look inside yourself
You may see the love I left behind
Days were fast but full of life
We laughed at everything
Now you’ve gone time is standing still
I don’t do anything I’m so alone
So lonely
Still I can recall
The happy times
Laughing arm and arm
So alive
Was it years ago
Or just a day
When you turned to me
Said goodbye
Now you’ve gone away
I don’t know why
Did you have to lie
Walk away
How can I go on
In emptiness
Feeling so alone
Every day

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About Lyrics and Now That You’Ve Gone by Chicago

The lyrics for Now That You’Ve Gone are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Chicago. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Now That You’Ve Gone have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Now That You’Ve Gone - Chicago and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Now That You’Ve Gone by Chicago in multiple 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 Now That You’Ve Gone" means the words set to the music of Now That You’Ve 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 Now That You’Ve Gone and the lyrics to Now That You’Ve 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 Now That You’Ve Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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