Album: Their 16 Greatest Hits (1971)

Charted: 9

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• Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
  Sooner or later, girl you got to give in
  Sooner or later, love is gonna let 'cha
  Sooner or later, love is gonna win
  Its just a matter of time
  
  Before you make up your mind
  To give all that love that you've been hiding
  Its just a question of when
  I've told you time and again
  I'll get all the love you've been denying
  
  Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
  Sooner or later, girl you got to give in
  Sooner or later, love is gonna let 'cha
  Sooner or later, love is gonna win
  
  You say you'll never be mine
  But darling they'll come a time
  I'll taste all that love that you've been hiding
  Its just a question of time
  Before you make up your mind
  And give all that love you've been denying
  
  You've been looking for love
  In all the wrong places
  You've been looking for love
  All the wrong faces
  Gotta get 'cha girl
  Off this illusion
  Gonna save your heart
  From all this confusion
  
  Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
  Sooner or later, girl you got to give in
  Sooner or later, love is gonna let 'cha
  Sooner or later, love is gonna win
  Love is gonna win
  
  Its just a matter of time
  Before you make up your mind
  And give all the love that you've been hiding
  Its just a question of when
  Told you time and again
  I'll get all the love you've been denying
  
  Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
  Sooner or later, girl you got to give in
  Sooner or later, love is gonna let 'cha
  Sooner or later, love is gonna win Writer/s: ADENEYI PARIS, EKUNDAYO PARIS, GARY ZEKLEY, MITCH BOTTLER, TED MC NAMARA
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

• 1hit1ders from CaliforniaTo Randy from Texas: The lady in the video you are speaking about is Mary Arnold from Kenny Rogers original group, The First Edition. She appears on this clip because the performance is from Kenny's music show at the time, called "Rollin' on the River" (later it was just "Rollin'"). A partially restored video is on my channel on YouTube (Search for "1hit1ders" on YT for my channel). I love this song too, it brings back fond memories of the Summer of '71, when I was only 13. This song used to play on the P.A. system at our local neighborhood swimming pool tuned to WLCY138/Tampa. It was in heavy rotation that summer and is the song I most closely associate with that year. It's a fantastic tune full of hooks and melodies, the perfect Summer song! The Grass Roots were great, had many hits and never got the recognition they deserved, IMHO. I have a 2-CD set of their hits I play often.
• MichaelThis song is about addiction. Benjamin Burnley had dealt with alcoholism and recovered; When he refers to “you” or “you’re” he’s referring to alcohol, and when he’s referring to himself, he is legitimately referring to himself and how he is struggling with the drug. If you relisten to the song with this in mind, it’ll make sense.
• Mike from Ft Collinsthe girl in the video is from group 1st edtion (Kenny Rodgers) The show was from Canada, I think
• Randy from TexasI just love the live version of Sooner or Later on you tube. In the video a lady in a black and white dress sings back up. But she may have been pulled from the audience to come up on the stage and sing. If you are familiar with the video you will know what I mean. She is just great and love to watch her. Does anyone know who she is or where this video was performed? Fantastic Hit!
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 4th 1971, the Grass Roots performed "Sooner or Later” on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  Just over three months earlier on May 30th, 1971 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #77; and on July 25th, 1971 it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
  On the same 'Bandstand' show the group also performed "Two Divided By Love"; and it too also stayed on the Top 100 for 11 weeks; peaking at #16 {for 2 weeks} on November 21st, 1971.,.
  Between 1966 and 1975 the Los Angeles-based quartet had twenty-one Top 100 records; with three made the Top 10 with "Midnight Confessions" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #5 {for 1 week} on October 27th, 1968...
  Bassist and lead singer Robert 'Rob' Grill passed away on July 11th, 2011 at the age of 67...
  May he R.I.P.
• Camille from Toronto, OhThe Grass Roots had some excellent hits that stand the test of time. This is just one of them. Agree with the comments that it's a catchy song and
  fun to sing along to.
• B.l. from Barry, TxMy second favorite Roots song behind "Glory Bound."
• Rick from Belfast, MeThis song was danced to by the winning couple on American Bandstand the year it came out.....I used to have the Grass Roots Greatest Hits "album".....a "must" have for the serious rock and roll collectors.....is what made the 70's so great!!!!!!!
• Wayne from Salem, VaI was 11 years old when this song came out. Heard it on the radio for the first time. I liked it then,and still like it now. The Grass Roots had quite a few pop/rock songs that were hits. "Sooner Or Later" was one of them. Like most songs from your youth,they retain fond memories. And I have alot of fond memories with this song. It is a very catchy song. And I still love to sing along with it.
• Abel from Garden City, KsThis is an awesome song. The song shows that Breaking Benjamin in underated.

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