Lyrics to
With You Gone

This version of With You Gone was released by Dolly Parton in 1978.

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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, what will do I with you gone?
Sitting in my lonely room just staring at the wall
For lack of something else to do I count the tears that fall
Trying to get it through my head you don’t care at all
What am I gonna do with you gone?

What does life hold for me anymore?
With you gone what once mattered don’t matter no more
You still have the key to my heart and my door
What am I gonna do with you gone, with you gone?

I can hear the lonesome whistle of a passing train
I can feel my heart beat a rhythm with the pouring rain
Realizing that my life won’t ever be the same
What am I gonna do with you gone?

Will I ever be happy again?
With you gone my whole world has just come to an end
Will I ever forget you, or will I forget
What am I gonna do with you gone, with you gone?

With you gone, What does life hold for me anymore?
With you gone what once mattered don’t matter no more
And you still have the key to my heart and my door
What am I gonna do with you gone, with you gone?

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, what will do I with you gone?

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides With You Gone. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and With You Gone by Dolly Parton

The lyrics for With You Gone are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Dolly Parton. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to With You 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 With You Gone - Dolly Parton 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 With You Gone by Dolly Parton 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 With You Gone" means the words set to the music of With You 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 With You Gone and the lyrics to With You 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 With You Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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