Lyrics to
Walk Away

This version of Walk Away was released by Donna Summer in 1979.

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Just another emotion
Is this something more
If it’s only a passionate phase
I’d rather just close the door

Turn away, turn away, turn away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Walk away
When you know that I need you
Walk away
When you hear me call you
(don’t) walk away
Don’t you see that I want you
Here by my side

(Don’t) walk away
When you know that I need you
(don’t) walk away
When you see me coming
(don’t) walk away
When you know that I need you
By my side

I’m sure that I’ll get over you
It’ll take me a while you see
Next time, there won’t be no next time
Save all my feelings for me

Turn away, turn away, turn away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Walk away
When you see that I need you
Walk away
When your hear me call you
(don’t) walk away
Don’t you know that I need you
Here by my side

(Don’t) walk away
When you see that I need you
(don’t) walk away
When you hear me call you
(don’t) walk away
Don’t you know that I want you
By my side

Turn away, turn away, turn away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Walk away
When you know that I need you
Walk away
When you hear me call you
(don’t) walk away
When you know that I need you
Here by my side

(Don’t) walk away…

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Donna Summer has released many songs over the years besides Walk Away. Donna Summer released songs from 1974 to 1996 spanning across albums like Lady Of The Night, Love To Love You Baby, Four Seasons Of Love, A Love Trilogy, Once Upon A Time, I Remember Yesterday, Live And More, Bad Girls, The Wanderer, Donna Summer, She Works Hard For The Money, Cats Without Claws, All Systems Go, Another Place And Time, Mistaken Identity, Christmas Spirit, and I'm A Rainbow. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Donna Summer.

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About Lyrics and Walk Away by Donna Summer

The lyrics to Walk Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Donna Summer used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Walk Away have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Donna Summer 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 Walk Away by Donna Summer. 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 Walk Away" means the words set to the music of Walk Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Donna Summer. 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 Walk Away and the lyrics to Walk Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Donna Summer who came here looking just for the lyrics to Walk Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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