Lyrics to
Runaway

This version of Runaway was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1977.

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As I walk along I wonder what went wrong
With our love, a love that was so strong
And as still walk on I think of the things we’ve done
Together while our hearts were young

I’m a walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain
Wishing you were here by me to end this misery
And I wonder, I wo wo wo wo wonder
Why, why why why why why she (you) ran away
And I wonder where she (you) will stay
My little runaway, a run run run run runaway

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

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

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