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“Without You” is a song written by Eric Silver along with Natalie Maines, lead singer of the American country group the Dixie Chicks, who recorded the song for their 1999 album Fly. It was released as the album’s fifth single in August 2000 and in January 2001, hit Number One on the U.S. country singles chart. It also reached number 31 on the U.S. pop singles chart.
Written by lead singer Natalie Maines and country songwriter Eric Silver, “Without You” is on the surface one of the Chicks’ more conventional efforts, lacking the “attitude” factor that distinguished them at the time. A ballad that directly speaks of lost love
I thought by now the time,
Would take away these lonely tears.
I hope you’re doing fine all alone,
But where do I go from here, ’cause —
Without you, I’m not okay
And without you, I’ve lost my way
My heart’s stuck in second place
Ooo - ooo
Without you …
it was accompanied by acoustic guitar and soft percussion at the start, adding drums on the chorus, pedal steel guitar into the bridge and a dramatic strings part out of the bridge and into the last chorus, before finishing as it started. The tender melody is sung by Maines without excessive ornamentation, and the harmonies from Emily Robison and Martie Seidel are unobtrusive.
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