Lyrics to
It Keeps You Runnin’

This version of It Keeps You Runnin’ was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1976.

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Say, where you gonna go
Girl, where you gonna hide
You go on leavin’ out your heart
And all it’s sayin’ down deep inside
From here I can feel your heartbeat
Oh, you got me all wrong
You ain’t got no worry
You just been lonely too long
I know what it means to hide your heart
From a long time ago
Oh, darlin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’

Oh, you know how I feel
Hey, you know I been there
But what you’re keepin’ to yourself
Oh, you know it just ain’t fair
Are you gonna worry
For the rest of your life
Why 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
Oh, darlin’

It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’
It keeps you runnin’, yeah it keeps you runnin’

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About Lyrics and It Keeps You Runnin’ by The Doobie Brothers

The lyrics for It Keeps You Runnin’ are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by The Doobie Brothers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for It Keeps You Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to It Keeps You Runnin’ by The Doobie Brothers in multiple 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 The Doobie Brothers. 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 The Doobie Brothers 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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