Lyrics to
What Am I Gonna Do

This version of What Am I Gonna Do was released by The Hollies in 1978.

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Another day has passed away
Another day without you
Here comes another lonely night
One more broken promise gone
One more teardrop from your eye
I suppose that I’ll survive

What am I gonna do
What am I gonna do

To find the words it’s hard to say
You don’t wanna hold him
Or leave him all alone
You’ve been together for so long
Now the feeling’s gone
You can’t see what’s right or wrong

I know it’s hard to tell him
You wanna go
It shouldn’t take this long
To let him know
I know I feel it’s gonna be my time
There’s still the question
When will you be mine

What am I gonna do

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When you decide to study the lyrics to What Am I Gonna Do, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Hollies. Some of the lyrics to What Am I Gonna Do have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Hollies and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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