Lyrics to
Nightflight To Venus

Released by Boney M in 1978
From the Album: Nightflight To Venus |

This version of Nightflight To Venus was released by Boney M in 1978.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard the starship Boney M
for our first passenger flight to Venus.

Ready for count-down: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – ignition – lift off

Nightflight to Venus
Way out there in space
Nightflight to Venus
Our new fav’rite place

Nightflight to Venus
All systems are go
Nightflight to Venus
The sky is aglow

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve had a successful
take-off on this first Nightflight to Venus.
Our flying time will be 8 hours. We’ll be travelling
at a speed of 2183 miles per second.

Nightflight to Venus
Nightflight to Venus

Captain – unidentified object at 8 o’clock – 2 million miles away.
Stand by for emergency manoeuvre.
Object coming closer at the speed of light. We have 8 more seconds.
Change course by 4 point 6 degrees.
Order admitteted.

Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes we are going
to be landing on Venus, push the button on your left side,
the safety mechanism will do the rest for you.
We hope you enjoyed the world’s first Nightflight to Venus,
have a good time there.


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Boney M has released many songs over the years besides Nightflight To Venus. Boney M released songs from 1976 to 1985 spanning across albums like Take The Heat Off Me, Love For Sale, Nightflight To Venus, Oceans Of Fantasy, Boonoonoonoos, Christmas Album, Ten Thousand Lightyears, Kalimba De Luna, and Eye Dance. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Boney M.

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About Lyrics and Nightflight To Venus by Boney M

The lyrics for Nightflight To Venus are defined as the words making up the song released by Boney M in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Nightflight To Venus have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Boney M and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Nightflight To Venus by Boney M if you think through it. 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 Nightflight To Venus" means the words set to the music of Nightflight To Venus, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boney M. 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 Nightflight To Venus and the lyrics to Nightflight To Venus are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boney M who came here looking just for the lyrics to Nightflight To Venus, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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