Lyrics to
They Won’t Go When I Go

This version of They Won’T Go When I Go was released by Stevie Wonder in 1974.

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No more lying friends
Wanting tragic ends
Though they do pretend
They won’t go when I go

All those bleeding hearts
With sorrows to impart
Were right here from the start
And they won’t go when I go

And I’ll go where I’ve longed
To go so long
Away from tears

Gone from painful cries
Away from saddened eyes
Along with him I’ll bide
Because they won’t go when I go

Big men feeling small
Weak ones standing tall
I will watch them fall
They won’t go when I go

And I’ll go where I’ve longed
To go so long
Away from tears

Unclean minds mislead the pure
The innocent will leave for sure
For them there is a resting place
People sinning just for fun
They will never see the sun
For they can never show their faces
There ain’t no room for the hopeless sinner
Who will take more than he will give
He ain’t hardly gonna give

The greed of man will be
Far away from me
And my soul will be free
They won’t go when I go

Since my soul conceived
All that I believe
The kingdom I will see
‘Cause they won’t go when I go

When I go
Where I’ll go
No one can keep me
From my destiny.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to They Won’T Go When I Go, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Stevie Wonder. Some of the lyrics to They Won’T Go When I Go have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stevie Wonder and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to They Won’T Go When I Go 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 They Won’T Go When I Go" means the words set to the music of They Won’T Go When I Go, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stevie Wonder. 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 They Won’T Go When I Go and the lyrics to They Won’T Go When I Go are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stevie Wonder who came here looking just for the lyrics to They Won’T Go When I Go, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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