Lyrics to
When I’m Gone

This version of When I’M Gone was released by Dolly Parton in 1975.

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You say that you’re bored with life and that you’re bored with me
Cause you say that this love of ours ain’t what it ought to be
Now you despite this little house that we’ve always called home
I know that you don’t love me now but you’ll love me when I’m gone
You’ll love me when I’m gone and then you’ll realize just what I meant to you
You’ll miss me when I’m gone and then you’ll realize how good I’ve been to you
You’ll want me when I’m gone and then you’ll realize you’ve loved me all alone
Oh it’s true you may not love me now but you’ll love me when I’m gone

We’ve grown too familiar with each other so you say
You say there’s no excitement now too bad you feel that way
Well I wonder how exciting that your life will be alone
Oh I know that you don’t love me now but you’ll miss me when I’m gone
You’ll love me when I’m gone…

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About Lyrics and When I’M Gone by Dolly Parton

When you decide to study the lyrics to When I’M Gone, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to When I’M Gone 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 When I’M Gone 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 When I’M Gone" means the words set to the music of When I’M Gone, 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 When I’M Gone and the lyrics to When I’M Gone 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 When I’M Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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