Lyrics to
It’s Gotta Be Love

This version of It’S Gotta Be Love was released by Reba Mcentire in 1979.

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It’s gotta be love
That keeps us together
It’s gotta be a feeling from the heart
It’s gotta be love
It must last forever
Or I won’t let the fire start
It’s gotta be love

I don’t have time for a part time love affair
I can’t pretend it’s love when it’s not really there
So don’t you lead me on if you don’t really care
It’s gotta be real
And I got a feeling

It’s gotta be love
That keeps us together
It’s gotta be a feeling from the heart
It’s gotta be love
It must last forever
Or I won’t let the fire start
It’s gotta be love

I can’t just let you take my love and walk away
And you must know that love is not a game I play
So when you say you love me
You better mean just what you say

It’s gotta be real
And I got a feeling

It’s gotta be love
That keeps us together
It’s gotta be a feeling from the heart
It’s gotta be love
It must last forever
Or I won’t let the fire start
It’s gotta be love

It’s gotta be love
That keeps us together
It’s gotta be a feeling from the heart
It’s gotta be love
It must last forever
Or I won’t let the fire start
It’s gotta be love

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Reba Mcentire has released many songs over the years besides It’S Gotta Be Love. Reba Mcentire released songs from 1977 to 2007 spanning across albums like Reba McEntire, Out Of A Dream, Feel The Fire, Heart To Heart, Unlimited, Behind The Scene, My Kind Of Country, Just A Little Love, Have I Got A Deal For You, Whoever's In New England, Reba Nell McEntire, What Am I Gonna Do About You, The Last One To Know, Reba, Sweet Sixteen, Rumor Has It, For My Broken Heart, It's Your Call, Read My Mind, Starting Over, What If It's You, If You See Him, So Good Together, Room To Breathe, and Reba: Duets. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Reba Mcentire.

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About Lyrics and It’S Gotta Be Love by Reba Mcentire

The lyrics to It’S Gotta Be Love are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Reba Mcentire used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to It’S Gotta Be Love have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Reba Mcentire and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to It’S Gotta Be Love by Reba Mcentire. 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’S Gotta Be Love" means the words set to the music of It’S Gotta Be Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reba Mcentire. 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’S Gotta Be Love and the lyrics to It’S Gotta Be Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reba Mcentire who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S Gotta Be Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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