Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

Album: Long Cold Winter (1988)
Charted: 54 12
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Thomas Carl Keifer
    Publisher: Sentric Music, TuneCore Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Reece from TennesseeListen to this one often. Takes me to 1987 when I lost the best of gals. Its a heartbreaker every. Single. Time....
  • Rosie from Arizona This was my favorite song by them as a kid along with Nobody’s Fool. My older cousins introduced me to them along with many great bands. I would sing this song a lot in foster care. Especially when I would be leaving a place. Though there was only one good home that I had.
  • Left Head Kick from Middle Class UsaAwesome song, I remember this one from 1988 when I was a kid.

    “Don’t know what it is, I did so wrong...
    Now I know what I got, it’s just this song...
    And it ain’t easy to get back it takes so long...”

    I recall being with my ex girlfriend over the last couple years. Beautiful Mexican girl, very special. I couldn’t wait to see her, to work out with her, to travel with her, to experience nice things with her, but it became toxic. I guess we were young, we were in love, and we were stupid to think it could last forever.

    Things became toxic at the end because she wanted more and I couldn’t give it to her. Feel like she was taking her frustrations out on me because things were not going in the direction she wanted after years . My walls were up, and I was afraid of ending up like my parents.
    If you really care about someone you have to be honest with yourself, and either go all the way or, get out of the way.

    And now we don’t talk.

    “...Now I know what I got, it’s just this song...”

    Tom Keifer - sick lyrics!
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