Lyrics to
You’re The Only One

This version of You’Re The Only One was released by Dolly Parton in 1979.

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I found out the hard way
And I’m never gonna break your heart
I know, too late
And I don’t want to break your heart
Guess I had to go away just to find
What I left behind

You’re the only one
You’re the only one
Take me back
To where we started from
And let’s make it now
Like we made it then
This ol’ heart ain’t gonna break your heart again

Nights I lay in bed
And your covers wouldn’t warm my feet
And morning found me
Bitter or a bit too sweet
Oh baby, I had to go away
Just to run back and say

You’re the only one
You’re the only one
Take me back
To where we started from
Can we make it now
Like we made it then
This ol’ heart ain’t gonna break your heart again

You’re the only one darlin’
They’ll never be anyone else but you
I love you so much
You are my love, you’ve become my life
And I never meant to break your heart
But, sometimes, you just got to go away
To find what you left behind

You’re the only one
You’re the only one
Take me back
To where we started from
Can we make it now
Like we make it then
This ol’ heart ain’t gonna break your heart again

You’re the only one
You’re the only one
You’re the only one
The only one
So take me back
To where we started from

You’re the only one
The only one
You’re the only one

You ‘re the only one
The only one
Take me back
To where we started from

You’re the only one
The only one
You’re the only one
You’re the only one
The only one

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides You’Re The Only One. 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 You’Re The Only One by Dolly Parton

The lyrics to You’Re The Only One are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Dolly Parton used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to You’Re The Only One have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Dolly Parton 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 You’Re The Only One by Dolly Parton. 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 The Only One" means the words set to the music of You’Re The Only One, 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 You’Re The Only One and the lyrics to You’Re The Only One 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 You’Re The Only One, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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