Lyrics to
American Nights

This version of American Nights was released by The Runaways in 1976.

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Clean rock n roll
Makes the midnight flow tonight now
It’s hot tonight
Come on let’s have a good time
In the dark of the night
We hunt for fun
Chasing after the moonlight
Hiding from the sun

American nights
You kids are so strange
American nights
You’re never gonna change

Our magic is young
Cause we just begun
We light up the sky
Always on the run
We live in the streets
In the alleys of screams
Cause we’re the queens of noise
The answer to your dreams

American nights
You kids are so strange
American nights
You’re never gonna change

Hey boy you’re my good time
Dance close ya feel so fine
Hold tight we’re on fire
All night you’re my desire

Everybody
Wanna party
Everybody
Wanna party

American nights
You kids are so strange
American nights
You’re never gonna change

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About Lyrics and American Nights by The Runaways

The lyrics to American Nights are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Runaways used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to American Nights have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Runaways 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 American Nights by The Runaways. 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 American Nights" means the words set to the music of American Nights, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Runaways. 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 American Nights and the lyrics to American Nights are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Runaways who came here looking just for the lyrics to American Nights, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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