Lyrics to
No Use Running

Released by Don Williams in 1973
From the Album: Don Williams, Vol. 1 |

This version of No Use Running was released by Don Williams in 1973.

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The weather vane out on the shed
Is looking to the west
I reckon I’ll head that way,
It’s good as any way I guess
Closing this old gate kinda ends our episode
‘Cause there’s no use running
When you’re on the wrong road.

Gal, it wouldn’t take much
For someone to define
All the contradicting flashes
That burn across our minds
But there’s no way to communicate
If you don’t know the code
And there’s no use running
When you’re on the wrong road.

There’s times I get to thinking
about the way it might have been
And I wonder how we got
To this state that were in
But every word we spoke
Only added to the load
And there’s no use running
When you’re on the wrong road.

Guess we knew somethings
You’ve got to fight to win
But you get to standing back
After leading with your chin
We both learned to young
That you reap what’s been sowed
And there’s no use running
When you’re on the wrong road.

Well, there’s no use running
When you’re on the wrong road…


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Don Williams has released many songs over the years besides No Use Running. Don Williams released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Don Williams, Vol. 1, Don Williams, Vol. 2, Don Williams, Vol. 3, You're My Best Friend, Harmony, Visions, Country Boy, Expressions, Portrait, I Believe In You, Especially For You, Listen To The Radio, Yellow Moon, Cafe Carolina, New Moves, Traces, One Good Well, Prime Cuts, True Love, Currents, Borrowed Tales, Flatlands, I Turned The Page, and My Heart To You. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Don Williams.

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The lyrics to No Use Running are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Don Williams in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to No Use Running are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Don Williams and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for No Use Running back when it was created.

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Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to No Use Running by Don Williams 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 No Use Running" means the words set to the music of No Use Running, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 No Use Running and the lyrics to No Use Running are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to No Use Running, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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