Lyrics to
Dance The Night Away

Released by Van Halen in 1979
From the Album: Van Halen Ii |

This version of Dance The Night Away was released by Van Halen in 1979.

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Have you seen her?
So fine and pretty. Fooled me with her style and ease.
And I feel her from across the room.
Yes, it’s love in the third degree.
Ooh, baby, baby.
Won’tcha turn your head my way?
Ooh, baby, baby.
Come on, take a chance.
You’re old enough to dance the night away.
Oh, come on, baby, dance the night away.
A live wire.
Barely a beginner, but just watch that lady go.
She’s on fire, ’cause dancing gets her higher than anything else she knows.
Ooh, baby, baby.
Won’tcha turn your head my way?
Ooh, baby, baby.
Well, don’t skip romance, ’cause you’re old enough to dance the night away.
Oh, come on, baby, dance the night away.
Dance the night away.
Dance, dance, dance the night away.


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The lyrics to Dance The Night Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Van Halen used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Dance The Night Away have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Van Halen 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 Dance The Night Away by Van Halen. 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 Dance The Night Away" means the words set to the music of Dance The Night Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Van Halen. 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 Dance The Night Away and the lyrics to Dance The Night Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Van Halen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dance The Night Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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