Seeking interpretations about the phrase " I'm gone."
In Gone Gone Gone's lyrics by Philip Philips, he sang "I'll love you long after you're gone gone gone." I couldn't understand the underlying meaning of this sentence. Dose it mean "I will still love you after you have dead" or " I will still love you for a long time after you leave me."
I also checked the meaning of "I am gone" via Yahoo, but there are various answers that are really confusing to me.
btw, an online dictionary explain the phrase "I'm gone" as an expression when you are just about to leave/ before leaving. Is it reasonable or commonly used?
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You're gone, gone, gone
can have two meanings, you're right. It can mean after you're dead OR after you've left me, so other lyrics will affect the meaning.
We don't use the phrase 'I'm gone' very often. We use the past tense for example 'He's gone to the shops and hasn't returned yet' but not really in the first person e.g. using 'I'. In fact, to say 'I'm gone' , in England this actually means, 'I'm drunk' i.e. I have drunk too much. But again, we don't really use it. It is used more as a verb (to go) than as an adjective. Thanks :)
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Thanks James. Now I have understand it. Thank you for your detailed answer. :D
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My interpretation of that lyric is 'I will still love you after you are dead". This is only because the rest of the song seems to point to this meaning. It could easily mean 'I will still love you for a long time after you leave me' if the rest of the song seemed more like a break up song or something like that. From the lyric in isolation you can't really tell what he means.
I'm gone would typically mean that the person has literally left (the more correct way to say this would be 'I have gone'). However colloquially, some people may use the phrase 'I'm gone' just prior to leaving, however this is less common and is very casual. 'I'm gone' is also sometimes used by people colloquially as a way of expressing a range of things, for example, being tired. However, this is also not very frequent and is very casual.
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