Lyrics to
I Kept On Loving You

This version of I Kept On Loving You was released by The Carpenters in 1970.

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I ran away from you
and left you crying,
And though I’m here to stay
you think I’m lying
But I’ve changed my ways
and my wandering days are through;
and through it all,
I’ve kept on loving you.

Don’t worry baby please don’t cry,
I’m home for good and I will never leave you
Don’t worry baby please don’t cry,
You must believe me and I will never leave you.

You’ve heard this all before
I don’t deny it
The road was long and wide
I had to try it
Though I hurt you girl
These were things I had to do
But through it all
I kept on loving you.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I Kept On Loving You, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to I Kept On Loving You have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Kept On Loving You if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Kept On Loving You" means the words set to the music of I Kept On Loving You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Kept On Loving You and the lyrics to I Kept On Loving You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Kept On Loving You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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