Lyrics to
If You Really Love Me

This version of If You Really Love Me was released by Stevie Wonder in 1971.

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And if you really love me won’t you tell me..
And if you really love me won’t you tell me..
And if you really love me won’t you tell me..
Then I won’t have to be
Playing around

You call my name
Oooh so sweet
To make your kiss incomplete
When your mood is clear
You quickly change your ways
Then you say I’m untrue
What am I supposed to do
Be a fool who sits alone waiting for you

But if you really love me won’t you tell me..
But if you really love me won’t you tell me..
And if you really love me won’t you tell me..
Then I won’t have to be
Playing around

I see the light of your smile
Calling me all the while
You are saying baby
It’s time to go…
First the feeling’s alright
Then it’s gone from sight
So I’m taking out this time to say

Oh if you really love me won’t you tell me..
Oh if you really love me won’t you tell me..
And if you really love me won’t you tell me..
Then I won’t have to be
Playing around no
Playing around no
Hey yeah
Goofin’ around no
Oh baby
Playing around no
Let me know how you feel baby
Hey oh baby
Playing around no

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Stevie Wonder has released many songs over the years besides If You Really Love Me. Stevie Wonder released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like Tribute To Uncle Ray, Down To Earth, Uptight (Everything's Alright), I Was Made To Love Her, Someday At Christmas, For Once In My Life, My Cherie Amour, Signed, Sealed And Delivered, Where I'm Coming From, Talking Book, Music Of My Mind, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants, Hotter Than July, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, The Woman In Red, In Square Circle, Characters, Jungle Fever, Conversation Peace, Natural Wonder, and A Time To Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Stevie Wonder.

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About Lyrics and If You Really Love Me by Stevie Wonder

When you decide to study the lyrics to If You Really Love Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Stevie Wonder. Some of the lyrics to If You Really Love Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stevie Wonder and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to If You Really Love Me 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 If You Really Love Me" means the words set to the music of If You Really Love Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stevie Wonder. 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 If You Really Love Me and the lyrics to If You Really Love Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stevie Wonder who came here looking just for the lyrics to If You Really Love Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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