Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith on September 7, 1966) started h… Read Full Bio ↴Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith on September 7, 1966) started her musical career as a founding member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, a Billy Childish / Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991. She spent a good few years as a Headcoatee before making her debut solo record, The Good Things, in 1995.

Where the Headcoatees sound was a blend of girl-group sounds and three-chord garage-rock, with all the original songs coming from the pen of Billy Childish, Holly’s solo sound is more a blend of pre-rock electric blues, folk, soul and less frantic elements of rock & roll. Apart from the wide range of covers of such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazelwood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers, Golightly also writes her own material.

Since her debut LP in 1995, Golightly has been very prolific, releasing fifteen albums and a bounty of singles for a wide variety of labels. Holly’s sound has remained remarkably consistent throughout, but each record has a quality that sets it apart from the other releases.

In 1999 Surefire released an LP, In Blood, on which Billy Childish and Holly Golightly sing duets and the two of them celebrate One Chord, One Sound, One Song.

2001’s Desperate Little Town, released on Sympathy for The Record Industry, another collaboration (this time with Dan Melchior) marked a bit of a stylistic diversion as it is a relaxed and mostly acoustic record. In the same year she also collected up all thirteen of her singles and E.P’s onto one double album called Single’s Round-Up.

After playing several shows with The White Stripes, in the USA, and then supporting them at their some of their London shows, Holly has been good friends with Jack and Meg for some time, recording a duet with them ’It’s True That We Love One Another’, for their album Elephant.

Holly has also recorded in the US with The Greenhornes and they released a special Christmas 2002 single together on Damaged Goods called Little Stars. Holly appeared on the Greenhornes album Dual Mono which is out in the States on Telstar. And Holly sings lead vocal on the track ’There’s An End’, which featured as the title track for the film, Broken Flowers.

Over the years Holly has been guest vocalist on various other bands projects, including live with Mudhoney and on several Rocket From The Crypt releases. Her most recent album 2005’s ’Slowly But Surely’ released on Damaged Goods and recorded, as usual, by Liam Watson at ToeRag Studios in London.

There was also a 7", ’Walk A Mile’ taken from the album, with an exclusive b-side Don’t Fuck Around With Love featuring the ever wonderful Sexton Ming.

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Holly Golightly is also the name of an indiepop band from Germany who released a four track 7" single in 1992.

Without You Here
Holly Golightly Lyrics

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All the while you're gone
I carry on
I count the days
All this time alone
Here on my own
While you're away

Days turn into weeks

Turn into months
Turn into years
And I don't want to get alone
Without you here

Weeks keep you from me
You need to be where you belong
Wish you by my side
For all this time
Please come home

All the while you're gone
I carry on
I count the days
All this time alone
Here on my own
While you're away

Days turn into weeks
Turn into months
Turn into years
And I don't want to get alone
Without you here

Without you here
Without you here
Without you here
Without you here
Without you here

Without you here
Without you here

Overall Meaning

In this song, the singer expresses the pain of being separated from a loved one. She speaks about how time keeps passing by, and it feels like an eternity. She talks about how she is carrying on with life, counting the days until she can see her lover again. The singer is experiencing a great sense of loneliness and isolation while her lover is away. She mentions how weeks turn into months, and months turn into years, which reflects how long it's been since she's been with her lover.

The chorus of the song is incredibly powerful, where the singer begs for her lover to come back, saying she doesn't want to be alone without them. The repetition of the phrase "Without you here" emphasizes the singer's pain of being separated from her lover. The song also touches on the idea of home and comfort. The singer wants her lover to come back and be where they belong - with her, and she says that being without them makes her feel like she doesn't have a home.

Overall, the song conveys a feeling of longing and desperation, and the powerful chorus emphasizes just how much the singer needs her lover to come back to her.

Line by Line Meaning

All the while you're gone
The period during which you're absent

I carry on
I continue living and coping with your absence

I count the days
I constantly monitor the duration of your absence

All this time alone
The period during which I am left without you

Here on my own
Living in solitude without you

While you're away
During your prolonged absence from me

Days turn into weeks
The time gradually passing and adding up

Turn into months
The time duration extending into multiple months

Turn into years
The time duration extending over the course of several years

And I don't want to get alone
I am afraid of being left isolated and on my own without you

Without you here
In your absence, physically distant from you