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Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

This version of Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight) was released by Thin Lizzy in 1977.

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When I passed you in the doorway
Well you took me with a glance
I should have took that last bus home
But I asked you for a dance

Now we go steady to the pictures
I always get chocolate stains on my pants
And my father he’s going crazy
He says I’m living in a trance

But I’m dancing in the moonlight
It’s caught me in its spotlight
It’s alright, alright
Dancing in the moonlight
On this long hot summer night

It’s three o’clock in the morning
And I’m on the streets again
I disobeyed another warning
I should have been in by ten

Now I won’t get out until Sunday
I’ll have to say I stayed with friends
But it’s a habit worth forming
If it means to justify the end

Dancing in the moonlight
It’s caught me in its spotlight
It’s alright, alright
Dancing in the moonlight
On this long hot summer night

And I’m walking home
The last bus has long gone
But I’m dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
It’s caught me in its spotlight
It’s alright, alright
Dancing in the moonlight
On this long hot summer night

Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight)
It’s caught me in its spotlight (It’s caught me in in it’s spotlight)
Dancing in the moonlight (dancing in the moonlight)
On this long hot summer night (It’s got me hot)

Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight)
It’s caught me in its spotlight (It’s caught me alright alright alright)
Dancing in the moonlight
On this long hot summer night (It’s so got them hot)

Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing)
It’s caught me in its spotlight (I’m still dancing)
Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight)
On this long hot summer night…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Thin Lizzy. Some of the lyrics to Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Thin Lizzy and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight) 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 Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight)" means the words set to the music of Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight) and the lyrics to Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dancing In The Moonlight (It’S Caught Me In Its Spotlight), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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