Lyrics to
Love Can Run Faster

This version of Love Can Run Faster was released by Robert Palmer in 1978.

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When you’ve run out
Of time for a feeling
You’ve gotten used to believing in

Love can run faster than you can

Waste no tears
Over what you are leaving,
There’s a new love about to begin

Love can run faster than you can

Fall for what replaces
The things you were leading to
Love can take a turn
When you least expect it to
Me and you, me and you oh oh

Love can run faster than you can
Love can run faster than you can

Take what you get
Till you get what you want
Don’t settle for
What you know to be wrong
When you’ve run out of time
For a feeling
You’ve gotten used to believing in

Love can run faster than you can

Fall for what replaces
The things you were leading to
Love can take a turn
When you least expect it to
Me and you, me and you oh oh

Love can run faster than you can
Love can run faster than you can
Love can run faster than you can
Love can run faster than you can

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About Lyrics and Love Can Run Faster by Robert Palmer

When you decide to study the lyrics to Love Can Run Faster, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Robert Palmer. Some of the lyrics to Love Can Run Faster have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Robert Palmer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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