Can't Be Really Gone - Composition

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"Can't Be Really Gone" is a song written by Gary Burr, and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in October 1995 as the second single from his album All I Want. It peaked at number two on the United States Billboard country chart, and number four on the Canadian RPM country chart.

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"Can't Be Really Gone"

Single by Tim McGraw

from the album All I Want

B-side

"That's Just Me"[1]

Released

October 23, 1995[2]

Genre

Country

Length

3:21

Label

Curb

Songwriter(s)

Gary Burr

Producer(s)

Byron Gallimore
James Stroud

Tim McGraw singles chronology

"I Like It, I Love It"
(1995)

"Can't Be Really Gone"
(1995)

"All I Want Is a Life"
(1996)

Track listing

Single

Can't Be Really Gone 3:20
That's Just Me 3:13

Content

The song is a ballad where the narrator observes the various items that his lover has left behind. He tells himself that she "can't be really gone" if she has left behind an unfinished book and her favorite shoes.

Music video

The music video premiered on CMT on October 28, 1995, when CMT named it a "Hot Shot", and was directed and produced by Sherman Halsey. It features McGraw performing the song in a room, with an orchestra behind him, and showing people in their everyday lives. At the end of the video, there was a hotline number for the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Thom Jurek, in their review of the album, said that McGraw delivered the song with sincerity, and that it and other similar songs showed his artistic growth over Not a Moment Too Soon, his last album.[3]

Chart positions

"Can't Be Really Gone" re-entered the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks as an official single at number 67 for the week of October 21, 1995.

Chart (1995)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4]	4
US Billboard Hot 100[5]	87
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[6]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[7]	81
US Country Songs (Billboard)[8]	74

References

Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 272–273. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
AOL Music profile for "Can't Be Really Gone"
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas; Thom Jurek. "All I Want review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
"Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2855." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. January 15, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
"Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
"Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996". RPM. December 16, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
"Best of 1996: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.

v t e Tim McGraw singles
Discography
Tim McGraw	"What Room Was the Holiday In" "Welcome to the Club" "Memory Lane" "Two Steppin' Mind"
Not a Moment Too Soon	"Indian Outlaw" "Don't Take the Girl" "Down on the Farm" "Not a Moment Too Soon" "Refried Dreams"
All I Want	"I Like It, I Love It" "Can't Be Really Gone" "All I Want Is a Life" "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"
Everywhere	"It's Your Love" "Everywhere" "Just to See You Smile" "One of These Days" "Where the Green Grass Grows" "For a Little While"
A Place in the Sun	"Please Remember Me" "Something Like That" "My Best Friend" "Some Things Never Change" "My Next Thirty Years"
Set This Circus Down	"Grown Men Don't Cry" "Angry All the Time" "The Cowboy in Me" "Unbroken"
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors	"Red Rag Top" "Tiny Dancer" "She's My Kind of Rain" "Real Good Man" "Watch the Wind Blow By"
Live Like You Were Dying	"Live Like You Were Dying" "Back When" "Drugs or Jesus" "Do You Want Fries with That" "My Old Friend"
Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"When the Stars Go Blue" "My Little Girl"
Let It Go	"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" "I Need You" "If You're Reading This" "Suspicions" "Kristofferson" "Let It Go" "Nothin' to Die For"
Southern Voice	"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" "Southern Voice" "Still"
Number One Hits	"Felt Good on My Lips"
Country Strong	"Me and Tennessee"
Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be"
Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" "Southern Girl"
Sundown Heaven Town	"Lookin' for That Girl" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" "Shotgun Rider" "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools"
Damn Country Music	"Top of the World" "Humble and Kind" "How I'll Always Be"
The Rest of Our Life	"Speak to a Girl" "The Rest of Our Life"
Here on Earth	"Thought About You" "I Called Mama" "Undivided" "7500 OBO"
Other songs	"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" "Let's Make Love" "Bring On the Rain" "Over and Over" "Like We Never Loved at All" "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" "Nine Lives" "Feel Like a Rock Star" "Lovin' Lately" "May We All" "The Ride" "California" "Neon Church"

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