Album: The Secret Of Association (1985)

Charted: 4 1

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• (Don't leave me all alone)
  (I'm picking up the pieces, picking up the pieces)
  (Don't leave me all alone)
  (I'm picking up the pieces, picking up the pieces)
  (Don't leave me all alone)
  (I'm picking up the pieces, picking up the pieces)
  (Don't leave me all alone)
  (I'm picking up the pieces)
  
  Hey
  If we can solve any problem
  Then why do we lose so many tears?
  Oh, so you go again
  When the leading man appears
  
  Always the same thing
  Can't you see
  We've got everything
  Going on and on and on
  
  Every time you go away
  You take a piece of me with you
  Every time you go away
  You take a piece of me with you, ooh
  
  Go on and go free, yeah
  Maybe you're too close to see
  I can feel your body move
  Doesn't mean that much to me
  
  I can't go on
  Saying the same thing
  'Cause can't you see?
  We got everything
  Baby, even though you know
  
  Every time you go away, yeah
  You take a piece of me with you, oh
  Every time you go away
  You take a piece of me with you, ooh
  
  Oh
  
  I can't go on
  Saying the same thing
  'Cause, baby, can't you see?
  We got everything
  Going on and on and on
  
  Every time you go away
  You take a piece of me with you
  Every time you go away
  You take a piece of me with you
  
  Picking up the pieces
  Every time you go away (ooh)
  You take a piece of me with you (be careful)
  (I've been thinking of you)
  Every time you go away (every time you go)
  (Every time you go away) you take a piece of me with you
  (You take a piece of me)
  Every time you go away (oh)
  You take a piece of me with you (every time you go) Writer/s: Daryl Hall
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• AnonymousI really like that way of describing a time like that, Jim. Never heard it before but that feeling resonates.
• Jim from Long Beach, CaYeah, that is the pat of the film that gets me too. This is a great song, it brings me back to the mid-80's which was part of my life when time stood still. Thanks.
• John from Grand Island, NyIn the final scene of the John Hughes classic 1987 comedy "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" this song is played (sung by another artist). No matter how many times I watch that movie (in the hundreds now), I still get misty during that scene as the entire movie comes together and you find out that John Candy's character (Del Griffith) is homeless after the death of his wife whom he dearly loved. It is a scene that is wonderfully acted out by a truly underappreciated Candy. Sadly John Hughes life ended this past summer.
• Slav from Warsaw, PolandThis a lovely song. I think that all people are run by their desires so they can see in it what they want or rather what their defects are. If you like canabis or other drugs, you wiil read it says about it. If you are a drunkard, you find it talking about abuse of spirit.If you tend to be a sort 'young female buds' lover, you acnowledge it talking about sex. So it is not the song that says about different evils, but perverted human minds which can notice things in accordance with their curved desires. It is as simple as that.
• Lee from Euclid, OhThis has long been one of my favorite songs in the sense that I loved hearing it despite even when it got so much radio airplay when it was first considered a *hit*, that you'd normally tire of listening to it.
  I still feel the same way about it today.
• Kal from Worthing, EnglandJust another okay UK copy of a great song written by an American.
• Joshua from Twin Cities, MnCorrection: The "other" Paul Young died from a heart attack, not an aneurysm.
• Joshua from Twin Cities, MnInterestingly, at about the same time this song charted in the U.S., a different singer named Paul Young also charted as a member of Mike & the Mechanics with "All I Need Is A Miracle". That Paul Young would record five albums with Mike & the Mechanics before dying of a brain aneurysm in 2000.
• Anne from Atlanta, GaThey play this song at the end of the movie, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," when Steve Martin and John Candy finally make it home.
• Tony (joycey) from Liverpool, EnglandWhile this was his biggest international hit Paul had a No1 hit in the UK with his third single 'wherever I lay my hat' in 1983
• Geoff from San Francisco, CaThe bass player on Paul's version is Pino Palladino, and it's one of the most recognizable fretless bass in music.

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