Lyrics to
Keep On Running

This version of Keep On Running was released by Stevie Wonder in 1972.

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Some gonna get you
Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Whole lotta folks, you better run faster.

Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Some gonna grab you
Oh You need this thing to grab you, ha.
Yea, yea

Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running, yea
Keep on running from my love

Some folks say that you’re really, really fine,
All you want to be is just a friend of mine,
But I know, the man your with gonna break your heart,
And you’ll be sad real soon, yea.

Keep on running,
Keep on running from my love,
Keep on running, yea,
Keep on running from my love.

Some folks say that you’re really, really fine
But all you want to be is just a friend of mine,
But I know I’m gonna get you with him -real soon.

Why do you keep?
Keep on running, running from my love
Yea, keep on running from
Keep on running, running from my love
I need you baby
Keep on running, running from my love
And everyday yea,
Keep on running, running from my love. Oh

Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running yea
Keep on running from my love

Some folks say that your love is really good
All you want to be is just a friend of mine,
But I know, I’m gonna get you in the end
‘Cause I need you so

Keep on running
Keep on running, running from my love
Yea, keep on running baby
Keep on running, running from my love, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
Keep on running, running from my love
…say it loud
Keep on running, running from my love
Oh, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
…say it loud
Keep on running, running from my love
Something gonna get you, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
You can get it baby in my love
Keep on running, running from my love
Oh, yea say
Keep on running, running from my love
sing I love you so
Keep on running, running from my love
Sing, so
Keep on running, running from my love
sing a little song for me
Keep on running, running from my love
Baby, you can bring me love
Keep on running, running from my love
I wanna hear
Keep on running, running from my love
Yea,
Keep on running, running from my love
Everybody sing it with me, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
Some’s gonna grab you
Keep on running, running from my love
some’s gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
keep on running baby
Keep on running, running from my love
Oh, yea yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea
Keep on running, running from my love
This is it
Keep on running, running from my love

Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

Keep on running
Keep on running, running from my love
yea, yea,
Keep on running, running from my love
I’m getting tired of you running
Keep on running, running from my love
Can you feel it in the shoe babe?
Keep on running, running from my love
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Keep on running, running from my love
Hey, hey
Keep on running, running from my love
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, mama, mama, mama
Keep on running, running from my love

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About Lyrics and Keep On Running by Stevie Wonder

When you decide to study the lyrics to Keep On Running, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Stevie Wonder. Some of the lyrics to Keep On Running 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 Keep On Running 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 Keep On Running" means the words set to the music of Keep On Running, 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 Keep On Running and the lyrics to Keep On Running 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 Keep On Running, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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