Lyrics to
All You Wanna Do Is Dance

This version of All You Wanna Do Is Dance was released by Billy Joel in 1976.

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Oh baby, you don’t get turned on by the radio.
Oh baby, you got nothing to play on your stereo.
“Why don’t the Beatles get back together?”
“Why don’t nobody sing of romance?”-
Oh baby, all you wanna do is dance.

Oh baby, I think you are lost in the seventies.
Oh baby, “The music she ain’t what she used to be.”
You don’t understand what they’re saying,
You’ve given it every chance
Oh baby, all you wanna do is dance.

Well you wish you were back in the good old days,
When tomatoes were cheaper,
and you never heard the words of your favorite songs
Through a three inch speaker.
And you never messed around with dangerous drugs,
You were all getting sick on beer
And you didn’t get any (unless you went steady and made out for a year).

Well you can hide away honey, in your rock and roll dreams,
You can stand by your blue suede shoes
But the party is over,
And I’m getting tired of waiting for you.

Oh baby, “Where are the oldies they used to play?”
Oh baby, you want to crawl back into yesterday,
You don’t want to deal with the future,
You don’t want to make any plans-
Oh baby, all you wanna do is dance.

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You can understand the lyrics to All You Wanna Do Is Dance 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 All You Wanna Do Is Dance" means the words set to the music of All You Wanna Do Is Dance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Billy Joel. 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 All You Wanna Do Is Dance and the lyrics to All You Wanna Do Is Dance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Billy Joel who came here looking just for the lyrics to All You Wanna Do Is Dance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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