Lyrics to
Running Back

This version of Running Back was released by Thin Lizzy in 1976.

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I’m a fool now that it’s over
Can you guess my name?
I make my money singing songs about you
It’s my claim to fame

When they say it’s over
It’s not all over, there’s still the pain

I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again
Oh I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again

If I said I was sorry
Would you still leave me?
I never thought you’d go ’till you did
Believe me

When they say it’s over
It’s not all over completely

‘Cause I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again
Yes I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again

I miss that girl

The show is over
and we must all go home
Just leave me by myself
I’ll be alright here on my own

If it’s all over, it’s all over
And I’m all alone

And I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again
Don’t you know I’d come running
I’d come running back to you again

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Thin Lizzy has released many songs over the years besides Running Back. Thin Lizzy released songs from 1971 to 1983 spanning across albums like Thin Lizzy, New Day, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds Of The Western World, Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Chinatown, Renegade, and Thunder And Lightning. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Thin Lizzy.

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About Lyrics and Running Back by Thin Lizzy

The lyrics to Running Back are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Thin Lizzy used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Running Back have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Thin Lizzy and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Running Back by Thin Lizzy. 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 Running Back" means the words set to the music of Running Back, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Running Back and the lyrics to Running Back are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Running Back, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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