"Without You" is a country song from the Dixie Chicks. Appearing on their 1999 album Fly, it was released as a single in August 2000 and in January 2001, hit number one on the Country singles chart. It also appeared to number 31 on the Pop singles chart.

History

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.

"Without You" was performed on the Chicks' 2000 Fly Tour, but generally not on subsequent tours.