Lyrics to
Running From Paradise

This version of Running From Paradise was released by Hall & Oates in 1979.

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I caught you staring at the ceiling
Captured by the mirror up there
OK OK I see the separation
Makin love down here
While you’re watching in the air

If you’re looking for love
and you don’t find it in my eyes
then you’re Running from Paradise.
Look before you leap, darling
don’t you know that you’re
Running from Paradise

I gave you every pose you asked for
Played every game you fantasize
I called your bluff, we’re running out of breath
You’re hooked on looking – not on what you find
PaPaPaParadise

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Hall & Oates has released many songs over the years besides Running From Paradise. Hall & Oates released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bigger Than Both Of Us, Beauty On A Back Street, Along The Red Ledge, X-Static, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Big Bam Boom, Ooh Yeah!, Change Of Season, Marigold Sky, Do It For Love, and Our Kind Of Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Hall & Oates.

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About Lyrics and Running From Paradise by Hall & Oates

The lyrics for Running From Paradise are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Hall & Oates. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Running From Paradise have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Running From Paradise - Hall & Oates and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Running From Paradise by Hall & Oates in multiple 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 Running From Paradise" means the words set to the music of Running From Paradise, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 From Paradise and the lyrics to Running From Paradise are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Running From Paradise, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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