Leave, left, leaving

The verb "to leave," not the left from right-and-left. Not the leaves from trees.

If you have a song about going away that doesn't have the word "leave" in it, play it here: http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/2008/02/going-away-songs.html


28 comments:

T.Allen said...

If you leave, don't look back
I'll be running the other way...

If You Leave-OMD

Sally said...

Left alone, all alone
Why has love passed her by?

a ballad I sang in girls' choir

Sandra Dodd said...

Someone left the cake out in the rain
i don't think that I can take it...

MacArthur Park (weird song)

Anonymous said...

I heard you were leaving
Gonna leave me far behind
'Cause you found a brand new lover
You decided that I'm not your kind

("Weird" Al Yankovic, "One More Minute")

Heaz said...

No fright
Or hindsight
Leaving behind now every feeling inside

"Fly By Night" - Rush

Sandra Dodd said...

That's why I'm leavin' it
Up to you
You decide
Whatchoo wanna do

("whatchoo" isn't good spelling, but it's the way it is in the song)

Heaz said...

I'm leavin'
On a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again

-John Denver

Deborah in IL said...

You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field

Kenny Rogers

Heaz said...

And all that he ever left us
was alone

"Papa Was a Rolling Stone"
(but I have no idea who)

Sarah said...

And despretely I long to feel your touch
But you left me all alone in love

George Strait

Heaz said...

Take the boat
Leave me here
Go now, don't wait!

"Track Down This Murderer", from Phantom of the Opera

Sandra Dodd said...

If ever I should leave you
It wouldn't be in Springtime

from the musical Camelot

Elisha said...

Leave me alone
Just stop doggin' me around

Michael Jackson

Sarah said...

So before you go and turn me on
Be sure that you can turn me loose
'Cause I still got a lot of leavin' left to do

Dierks Bentley

Sylvia said...

I wish you wouldn't make me leave here

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad ~ Meatloaf

(8 words)

Heaz said...

Do you love me?
Will you love me forever?
Do you need me?
Will you never leave me?

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" - Meatloaf

(and thanks for putting Meatloaf in my head, Sylvia!)

Christa said...

He's leaving
On that midnight train to Georgia

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Anonymous said...

She's leaving home after living alone for so many years
She's leaving home
bye bye

(Lennon/McCartney)

Shanona Ryder said...

I'm leaving today
living it
leaving it
to change...

---Christina Aguilera
(9 words :o)

Elisha said...

Leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case

Bronski Beat, "Smalltown Boy"

Shanona Ryder said...

It's all you've got inside your head
Better get up and leave instead...

---30 Seconds to Mars, "Echelon"

Anonymous said...

A man is a two-face
A worrisome thing
Who'll leave you to sing
The blues in the night.

(Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)

Sandra Dodd said...

She is happy just to hear me
Say that I will never leave her

"She's a Woman," the Beatles

Anonymous said...

Will I leave you, never?
Could the ocean leave the shore?

(Cole Porter, "Do I Love You?")

Anonymous said...

I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China,
All to myself, alone.
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore,
Leave all your lovers weeping on the far away shore.

(Frank Loesser)

Meghan said...

If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me.

Chicago

lalalaladiesmangirl said...

I have two. 1. When I think about cheating, I just think about you leaviing (Gretchen Wilson)

2.L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know,
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.

HoosierNan said...

I'm leaving by night;
I'm leaving alone.
I'm leaving it lie;
When you 'waken I'll be gone.

--"From Me to You," Janis Ian