Lyrics to
She Never Knew Me

This version of She Never Knew Me was released by Don Williams in 1976.

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She packed up her suitcase
And walked to the door
She said she won’t come back
Like she’s done before
I’ll bet she’s in Dallas
Before it gets dark
I know she’s thinkin’,
She’s breakin’ my heart.

She knows I love her
But she thinks I’ll crawl
But she never knew me
She never knew me
She never knew me, at all.

She knows I love her
I know I need her
God knows to please her
I’ve tried, and I’ve tried.

By now if I know her
She’s changed her mind
She’ll pull off the highway
And have a good cry.

And then like a lost child
She’ll wanna come home
She thinks I’m waitin’
There by the phone.

She’ll stop in some cafe
And give me a call
But she never knew me
She never knew me
She never knew me, at all…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to She Never Knew Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to She Never Knew Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to She Never Knew Me 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 She Never Knew Me" means the words set to the music of She Never Knew Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 She Never Knew Me and the lyrics to She Never Knew Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to She Never Knew Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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