Already Gone

Already Gone is a song written by Kyle Jacobs, Ben Glover, and Joy Williams. Rayna Jaymes first performed it around the time that Juliette Barnes hit the spotlight, with All My Angels. This is her "favorite song" and the most popular song that Rayna Jaymes has written.

It is featured in the Season One episodes Pilot, I've Been Down That Road Before, When You're Tired of Breaking Other Hearts and the Season Two episode We've Got Things to Do. She also performs it for a crowd of disinterested Silicon Valley business people in the Season Five premiere The Wayfaring Stranger. An unknown person is heard listening to it in the following episode Back in Baby's Arms.

Originally, the song was not released because a complete version was never recorded. But for Season Five, CMT ordered a full version.

Lyrics[]

I take a breath and turn the key
I never guessed this would take all of me
One more look at what I'm leaving behind
This cloud of dust is my goodbye

It's a long, long road to independence
But I'm leaving you for Tennessee
I've got demons riding shotgun
Telling me not to go
But what they don't know
Is I'm already gone
I'm already gone

They say it's easier as time goes by
Why won't these tears stop falling from my eyes
Letting you go wasn't what I planned
With every mile the more I understand

It's a long, long road to independence
But I'm leaving you for Tennessee
I've got demons riding shotgun
Telling me not to go
But what they don't know
Is I'm already gone
I'm already gone

I almost turned around on highway 65
And in Arkansas I pulled off at a truck stop just to cry
I put myself together at the Chatham county line
And I thought about my heartache and all the reasons why I should drive
Just drive

It's a long, long road to independence
But I'm leaving you for Tennessee
I've got demons riding shotgun
Telling me not to go
But what they don't know
No, what they don't know
Is I'm already gone
I'm already gone
I'm already gone

Videos[]

Already Gone (feat. Connie Britton) by Nashville Cast

Connie Britton - Already Gone (Nashville)

Already gone - Rayna Jaymes - Nashville 1x12

Season One Songs
A Showman's Life • All My Angels • Already Gone • American Beauty • Back Home • Bitter Memory • Boys & Buses • Buried Under • Casino • Change Your Mind • Changing Ground • Consider Me • Fade Into You • For Your Glory • Gun for a Mouth • Hangin' on a Lie • Ho Hey • Hypnotizing • I Will Fall • I'll Be There (If You Want Me) • I'm a Girl • I'm A Lonesome Fugitive • If I Didn't Know Better • If Momma Coulda Seen Me • In The Arms of a Jealous God • It's My Life • Keep Asking Why • Kiss • Let There Be Lonely • Looking for a Place to Shine • Love Like Mine • Love's Ring of Fire • Loving You is the Only Way to Fly • Matchbox Blues • Moon is High • No One Will Ever Love You • Nothing in this World Will Ever Break My Heart Again • One Works Better • Papa Writes to Johnny • Peace in the Valley • Postcard from Mexico • Shine • Sideshow • Stompin' Grounds • Stronger than Me • Telescope • Telescope • The End of the Day • The Morning of the Rain • Tough All Over • Twist of Barbwire • Twist of Barbwire • Undermine • Used • We Are Water • When the Right One Comes Along • Wrong Song • Yellin' From the Rooftop • You Ain't Dolly (And You Ain't Porter)

Season Two Songs
A Life That's Good • Adios Old Friend • Already Gone • Ball and Chain • Be My Girl • Believing • Black Roses • Buried Under • Can't Get It Right • Can't Say No To You • Carry You Home • Come Find Me • Come See About Me • Crazy Tonight • Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet • Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet (Duet Version) • Done Runnin' • Dreams • Every Time I Fall In Love • Everything I'll Ever Need • Falling • Gonna Get Even • He Ain't Gonna Change • Hennessee • How You Learn To Live Alone • Hurtin' On Me • Hypnotizing • Hypnotizing (Acoustic Version) • I Ain’t Leaving Without Your Love • I Can't Sleep Tonight • I'm a Girl • Is That Who I Am • It Ain't Yours to Throw Away • It All Slows Down • It's On Tonight • Joy Parade • Keep Coming Back • Lately • Like New • One Light Shining • Playin' Tricks • Share With You • Stronger than Me • Tears So Strong • Tell Me • Tell That Devil • That's What I Do • The Best Songs Come from Broken Hearts • The Blues Have Blown Away • Then I Was Loved By You • This Love Ain't Big Enough • This Time • This Town • Trouble Is • Waitin' • Wayfaring Stranger (A Cappella) • What If I Was Willing • Why Can't I Say Goodnight • Wrong for the Right Reasons • Wrong Song • You're The Kind of Trouble

Season Five Songs
A Few Steps My Way • A Life That's Good • All of Me • Already Gone • As the Crow Flies • Back Again • Beautiful Dream • Before You • Burn to Dark • By Your Side • Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus • Can't Remember Never Loving You • Clockwork • Close to the Fire • Coat of Pain • Count On Me • Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet • Dreaming My Dreams With You • East Iris • Eye of the Storm • Forever • Good Rain or Jesus • God Shall Wipe All Tears Away • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad • Good Man • His Eye Is on the Sparrow • In Love • In the End • I'll Fly Away • Learning How To Lose You • Little Darlin' • Love Until It Hurts • My Favorite Hurricane • No One Cares About Your Dreams • On My Way • Out for Love • Plenty Far to Fall • Rose and Thorn • Run With Me • Sanctuary • Saved • Simple as That • Simple as That (Opry Version) • Sourwood Mountain • Stand Up • Tennis Shoes • Texas Cookin' • The Hell of It Is • This is the Moment • This World Don't Owe Me Nothin' • Together We Stand • To Make You Feel My Love • Water Rising • Wayfaring Stranger • When I Look At the World • Who I Love • Wide Open • Without You • Won't Back Down • Wrong Kind of Right • You Don't Know Me • Your Best • You're Mine • You're Standing on My Neck