Lyrics to
When I’m With You

This version of When I’M With You was released by Don Williams in 1978.

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If I could write about the way you make me feel
I wonder what I’d write
‘Cause of all the words there are to use
They’d never say it right
When I only have a minute
And It’d take a thousand hours
And some new words too
But my nights are never blue
And I don’t mind the rain when I’m with you

When I’m with you the songs are already written
Melodies turn into words nobody’s ever said
When I’m alone the only thing I can say that’s true
Is my nights are never blue
And I don’t mind the rain when I’m with you

So if I could write about the way you make me feel
I don’t know what I’d write
‘Cause of all the words there are to use
They’d never say it right
When I only have a minute
And It’d take a thousand hours
And all those new words, too
But my nights are never blue
And I don’t mind the rain when I’m with you…

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About Lyrics and When I’M With You by Don Williams

The lyrics to When I’M With You are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Don Williams used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to When I’M With You have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Don Williams and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to When I’M With You by Don Williams. 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 With You" means the words set to the music of When I’M With You, 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 When I’M With You and the lyrics to When I’M With You 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 When I’M With You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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