Lyrics to
It Keeps You Runnin’

This version of It Keeps You Runnin’ was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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Where you gonna go
Where are you gonna hide?
You go on leaving out your heart
And all it’s saying deep inside

I can feel your love heart beat
You got me all wrong
You don’t have to worry
You just been lonely too long
I know what it means to hide your heart
From long ago –

It keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’…

I know how you feel
You know I been there
But what you’ve been keeping to yourself
Well you know it just ain’t fair

Are you gonna worry
For the rest of your life
Why are you in such a hurry
To be lonely one more night?
I know what it means to hide your heart
From a long time ago –

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides It Keeps You Runnin’. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and It Keeps You Runnin’ by Carly Simon

The lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carly Simon in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carly Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for It Keeps You Runnin’ back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ by Carly Simon in a number of ways. 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 It Keeps You Runnin’" means the words set to the music of It Keeps You Runnin’, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 It Keeps You Runnin’ and the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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