After You've Gone
Love's Painful Echoes: After You've Gone
Lyrics
Now won't you listen honey, while I say,
Expressing a request for attention and understanding from the listener.
How could you tell me that you're goin' away?
Questioning a statement about the impending departure of the person being addressed.
Don't say that we must part,
Discouraging the idea of separation, urging the listener not to end the relationship.
Don't break your baby's heart
Pleading not to cause emotional pain or heartbreak.
You know I've loved you for these many years,
Affirming a long-standing love over the years.
Loved you night and day,
Highlighting continuous, day-and-night love for the person.
Oh! honey baby, can't you see my tears?
Expressing sadness and tears over the situation.
Listen while I say
Reiterating the importance of listening to the speaker's feelings.
After you've gone and left me cryin'
Reflecting on the emotional aftermath of the person's departure.
After you've gone there's no denyin'
Stating that the emotional impact of the departure is undeniable.
You'll feel blue, you'll feel sad
Anticipating the person feeling sorrow and sadness.
You'll miss the dearest pal you've ever had
Predicting the person will miss the speaker, their dearest friend.
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
Forewarning that a time will come when the person will regret leaving.
There'll come a time when you'll regret it
Emphasizing the inevitability of regret at some point in the future.
Someday, when you grow lonely
Suggesting that loneliness will come to the person eventually.
Your heart will break like mine and you'll want me only
Expressing the idea that the person's heart will break similar to the speaker's experience.
After you've gone, after you've gone away
Reiterating the emotional aftermath of the person's departure.
After you've gone and left me cryin'
Recalling the emotional impact of the person leaving.
After you've gone there's no denyin'
Reiterating the undeniable emotional consequences of the departure.
You're gonna feel blue, and you're gonna feel sad
Predicting the person will feel blue, sad, and bad.
You're gonna feel bad
Reiterating the person's negative emotions after leaving.
And you'll miss, and you'll miss,
Emphasizing the intensity of missing the speaker, the best pal.
And you'll miss the bestest pal you ever had
Repeating the idea of missing the closest friend.
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
Reiterating the inevitability of regret at some point in the future.
There'll come a time when you'll regret it
Stating the future regret that will come to the person.
But baby, think what you're doin'
Advising the person to consider the consequences of their actions.
I'm gonna haunt you so, I'm gonna taunt you so
Forewarning that the speaker will haunt and taunt the person.
It's gonna drive you to ruin
Predicting that the haunting and taunting will lead to ruin.
After you've gone, after you've gone away.
Reiterating the emotional aftermath of the person's departure.
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