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After You Lyrics by Roberta Flack

Blue Lights in the Basement

1977

[Verse 1]
Raining again
I ought to get out from under
Sometimes I wonder
Sometimes I don't wonder at all
And as for loving again
Someday somebody might need me
But where would it lead me?
I'd just be rising to fall

[Chorus]
After you
What am I gonna do?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through
After you
What am I gonna find?
The me you left behind
As you were passing through

[Verse 2]
Drifting again
From place to place without reason
Season to season
Like nothing matters at all
And as for people again
Somewhere somebody might need me
But where would it lead me?
I'd just be rising to fall

[Chorus]
After you
What am I gonna do?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through
After you
What am I gonna find?
The me you left behind
As you were passing through

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
After you
What am I gonna do?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through
After you
What am I gonna find?
The me you left behind
As you were passing through
After you
What am I gonna do?
You took a part of me
As you were passing through
After you

About “After You” by Roberta Flack

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"After You" is credited to Roberta Flack. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"After You" appears on "Blue Lights in the Basement" in 1977.

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