Lyrics to
Can’t Stop The Music

This version of Can’T Stop The Music was released by Hall & Oates in 1974.

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He’s the star of the stage, and he screams all night
‘Cause he can’t get to sleep at all
And his favorite book, by the T.V. light, can’t stop the matinee,
He’s played it over and over
He Can’t Stop The Music, or remember the ending to his song
He played it much too long
All those hard-earned words, that he’s fought from his pen
Have been forgotten in some empty hall
And the wide-eyed looks, on those wiped-out faces
Make some dreams in such places over and over
He Can’t Stop The Music, or remember the ending to his song
He played it much too long
Wouldn’t believe your ears, if he told you what the papers use to say
But that was in his hey-day
Back in his prime he had the fans in line
You should have seen him then, now look at him
His hair is getting thin
There’s one last show before the glory ends
There in the wings, waits his only friend,
The record that he prayed to over and over
He Can’t Stop The Music, or remember the ending to his song
He played it much too long
Then we go like this, and we go like that (music)
Then we go like this, and we go like that,
Can’t Stop The Music
Then we go like this, and we go like that (music)
Then we go like this and we go like that.

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You can understand the lyrics to Can’T Stop The Music 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 Can’T Stop The Music" means the words set to the music of Can’T Stop The Music, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 Can’T Stop The Music and the lyrics to Can’T Stop The Music are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Can’T Stop The Music, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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