Already Gone

To me, this song is about first loves and learning to move on, and realizing there's a lesson with the pain. Because in the beginning the mom is telling her to go out and meet boys and make mistakes, then she meets the boy and her friends are telling her not to lose it yet, because they know it won't work. then at the end she realizes she's got to leave him because she's "already gone" from the relationship. But she knows life will have more in store.

It's about finding what you want in life. The girl has to leave home to find herself, and then she has to leave her relationship to move on. She's running to different parts of life.

this part is the most...i dont know relli just the best part to me:

but his dark eyes dared me with danger and sparks fly like flame to a paper fire in his touch burning me up, but still i held on

I feel like shes trying to say that shes always been waiting for this. shes always been "already gone" and ready to move on to bigger, and better things. she knows she made mistakes, and thats a part of life. but know its time to move on.

a box in my closet contains what was, at one time, my whole life...

we split the blame for the parts that we couldn't change pictures, dishes, and socks it's our whole life down to one box

always gives me chills for some reason. Its just so real. This is why I love country music so much.

I agree about the "Pictures, dishes and socks / It's our whole life down to one box" line. It's so simple, sad and true. I don't think I'd come back to this song as often if not for that verse. The rest of the song is good, but that's one of the best lyrics I've heard in quite a while.

this song breaks my heart every time i hear it, reminds me of a girl starting out, experimenting, trying things out for her own experience and then she falls in love and it just falls apart because of problems between them they couldn't fix, so she starts all over again. it makes me cry every time!! one of my favorite sugarland songs <3

wow. thats great. =)

This song really hits home for me. I was with my first boyfriend for 4 years, it started out with my family telling me I'm young I need to live and go out and find myself. So I did. Along with finding myself I found him as well. I lived with him for 2 of the 4 years we were together and although we had good days, there was quite a few bad ones, it became a 50/50 life for us. We were settling for what we had because it was what we knew. We were afraid to be alone and accept that we weren't meant to be together. Until one day we had to sit down and talk because it was over and it had been over for a long time. As we sat packing up my things for me to move out and on with my life, there was such pain in everything we were doing and wonder on why we couldn't fix things but we knew this was the only way now. Both of us cried, and shared some final laughs together at some of the pictures we had taken over the years. But it broke both our hearts to come to that ending. When I first heard this song, I bawled my eyes out and to this day I still do. I'll never forget him, or our life we had, but I was already gone.