Chord/Tab song: Runaway Love

Runaway Love? (1978) reached number 3 in the US R&B charts.

RUNAWAY LOVE By LiNDA CLIFFORD.(1978)

INTRO:C#m D/C#m D/C#m D/Bm Dm7b5/

[Am] [Bm/Am] [Bm/Am] [Bm/Am] [Bm/]
(Talking Part)
Hey, baby, where you going
Now wait a minute
You can't leave now Again?
Now we been through this before
And I'm tired, that's right I'm tired
Sick and tired of the
Same old thing over and over

(CHORUS)
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
You're s[Am]lick here
Playing with my fe[Bm]elings
You keep me[Am]ssing round
Playing with my [Bm]heart

I find the [Am]things that you say
[Bm]They don't have no meaning
[Am]And that is why I know
We're gonna have to [Bm]part

(CHORUS)
Stop pl[Am]aying with my heart if you don't[Bm] mean
and stop [Am]playing with my heart if you dont [Bm]careAm
don't go aro[Am]und making jokes bout h[Bm]ow you're
useing me

Cause [Am]I ain't got no
Heartaches to [Bm]spare
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
(Just-a keep on running away
Run away, run away)
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]

(Running, running, running)
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
[E]Don't come around
[D]Holding me and kissing me
[E]Talking all that jive
And getting my f[D]eelings up
If you're l[E]eaving me and running
Off to so[D]meone else's arms
[Bm]Breaking up my heart and soul
And l[E]eaving me stuck
With all my [Am]tears
Heartaches and [D]emotions
I'm all h[Am]ung up with
Love and de[D]votions
So stop [Am]messing with my heart
If you don't m[Bm]ean it
And stop [Am]messing with my love
If you don't [Bm]care

Don't come here
[Am]Talking bout loving, no thar
Yo[Bm]u are using me
Cause I [Am]ain't got no
Heartaches to [Bm]spare
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
(Just A-running, just A-running
In and out of my life)
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]

(Where you gonna

Run to this time, ba by)
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
(You can go if you want to
You can go, you can go)
You're a runaway love
(Don't come back next time)

Ow, get down, uh huh
Yeah, shake it
Uh huh, do your thing
Don't you feel it
Don't you feel it
Yeah, yeah...
[E]Don't come around
[D]Holding me and kissing me
T[E]alking all that jive
And ge[D]tting my feelings up
Then l[E]eaving me and running
Off to [D]someone else's arms
[Bm]Breaking up my heart and soul
And lea[E]ving me stuck
With all my [Am]tears
My [Bm]heartaches and emotions
I'm all hung [Am]up with
Love and d[Bm]evotions
So stop m[Am]essing with my heart
If you don't [Dm]mean it
Hey, stop me[Am]ssing with my love
If you don't c[Am]are
Don't [Am]come here

tang bout love and
You k[Bm]now you're using me
Baby, I ain'[Am]t got no
Heartaches to [Bm]spare
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]
(Just A-running, just A-running
In and out of my life)
You're a runaway [Am]love[Bm]

(Just a-running, keep on running
Run away from love)
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
(Just a-running, you keep running
(Where you going
(Where, where you going)
You're a runaway l[Am]ove[Bm]
(Just A-running, just A-running)

(Talking Part}
Come here, no
Don't start that over again
You wanna leave
You go ahead and leave

It ain't gonna bother me no more
Cause I'm going out
And I'm gonna get down

I'm tired of sitting here
And waiting for you to come home
And you out someplace
With somebody else
I'm gonna go out
And find me somebody

Yeah, gonna go dancing
Gonna go dancing, hey
I can still do it, you know
You ain't gotta be here
For me to be doing this

Yeah, go ahead
And run if you want to
Go ahead, like I said
You ain't go to stay

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