Lyrics to
You’re On Your Own

This version of You’Re On Your Own was released by Journey in 1976.

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Well try and make up your mind
Well try to make up your mind
Well try to make up your mind
Well try to make up your mind, yeah

Now you’re on you’re own, yeah yeah baby
Now you’re on you’re own, yeah

There’s a new moon rising on the other side
The other side of you
Talk to yourself and someone else
What you tryin’ to do
You maybe will, you maybe won’t
It’s all for you to say
You say you do, and then you don’t
It’s only you in the way, yeah yeah yeah

Baby, now you’re on you’re own, yeah yeah yeah baby
Hey, now you’re on you’re own, yeah

When the light is gone that left your eyes
I haven’t spoke too soon
And now we know your pretty words
Is just another tune
You spoke your mind, you’ve been quite kind
It’s all according to you
Well go inside, keep your pride
I can’t get through to you, no no

Now you’re on you’re own
Now you’re on you’re own

Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind
Well try and make up your mind

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About Lyrics and You’Re On Your Own by Journey

When you decide to study the lyrics to You’Re On Your Own, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Journey. Some of the lyrics to You’Re On Your Own have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Journey and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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