Lyrics to
Race With The Devil

This version of Race With The Devil was released by Judas Priest in 1977.

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You’d better run
You’d better run
You’d better run from the Devil’s gun

The race is on
The race is on
Now you’d better run from the Devil’s gun

Strange things happen
If you stay
The Devil will catch you anyway
He’ll seek you here
He’ll seek you there
The Devil will seek you everywhere

And when he finds you
You’ll soon find out
The Devil’s fire just won’t go out
He burns you up
From head to toe
The Devil’s grip just won’t let go

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About Lyrics and Race With The Devil by Judas Priest

When you decide to study the lyrics to Race With The Devil, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Judas Priest. Some of the lyrics to Race With The Devil have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Judas Priest and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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