Lyrics to
Goodnight

This version of Goodnight was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1978.

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It’s rainin’ on me
Watch the cab drive you away
I see the night bein’ eatin’ up
By just another day
I guess I’d better accept
That we just didn’t have a lot to say
Except goodnight
I guess it’s goodnight

The city workers
Cleanin’ up the streets
An old man wrapped in rags and newspaper
Lies asleep on the corner of the street
Whatever we had
Lies in a heap at your feet
Goodnight
I guess it’s goodnight

A crowd of people, aw shit

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About Lyrics and Goodnight by John Cougar Mellencamp

When you decide to study the lyrics to Goodnight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by John Cougar Mellencamp. Some of the lyrics to Goodnight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Cougar Mellencamp and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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