Lyrics to
Attitude Dancing

This version of Attitude Dancing was released by Carly Simon in 1975.

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There’s a new kind of dancing
that’s gonna be the rage
You just leave yourself behind
Like an actor on a stage

Cop a different pose
From the pose you’re in
Shine a different attitude
From underneath your skin

Attitude dancing
Strut around the floor in a different attitude
Attitude dancing
Any attitude is the proper attitude
Attitude dancing
Don’t be afraid to change your attitude
Attitude dancing
Free up your spirit with a new attitude

It don’t even matter
If you stretch or shake
And it don’t really matter
What moves your body makes

And it don’t really matter
What steps you choose to do
Only one thing matters:
That’s your attitude
Your attitude, attitude dancing

Attitude dancing
Strut around the floor in a different attitude
Attitude dancing
Learn to move in another attitude
Attitude dancing
Find the groove in a new attitude
Attitude dancing
Don’t be afraid of a new attitude

It don’t really matter
What steps you choose to do
Only one thing matters:
Is your attitude

Your attitude, attitude dancing
Strut around the floor in a new attitude
Do the locomotion in a new attitude
Do the mashed potato in a new attitude
Do the hully gully in a new attitude

Find a role you like
Capture it and freeze
Then turn it around
A hundred and eighty degrees
Or if you’re at a loss
Observe some natural dude
And turn into a mirror of his attitude
Attitude, attitude, attitude
Dancing

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Attitude Dancing, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Carly Simon. Some of the lyrics to Attitude Dancing have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carly Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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