Lyrics to
Goodnight Ladies

This version of Goodnight Ladies was released by Lou Reed in 1972.

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Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It’s time to say
goodbye, let me tell you, now

Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It’s time to say
goodbye

Now, all night long
you’ve been drinking your tequilla
But now you’ve sucked
your lemon peel dry, so why not get high, high, high and
Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Goodnight ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It’s time to say
goodbye

Goodnight sweet ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It’s time to say
goodbye, bye-bye

Ah, we’ve been together
for the longest time
But now it’s time to get high
come on, let’s get high, high, high
And goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Oh, I’m still missing my other half
oh, it must be something I did in the past
Don’t it just make you wanna laugh
it’s a lonely Saturday night

Oh, nobody calls me on the telephone
I put another record on my stereo
But I’m still singing a song of you
it’s a lonely Saturday night

Now, if I was an actor
or a dancer who is glamorous
then, you know, amorous life would soon be mine
But now the tinsel light of star break
is all that’s left to applaud my heart break
and eleven o’clock I watch the network news

Oh, woh, woh, something tells me that you’re really gone
you said we could be friends
but that’s not what’s not what I want
Ah, anyway, my TV-dinner’s almost done
it’s a lonely Saturday night
I mean to tell you, it’s a lonely Saturday night
One more word, it’s a lonely Saturday night

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About Lyrics and Goodnight Ladies by Lou Reed

When you decide to study the lyrics to Goodnight Ladies, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Lou Reed. Some of the lyrics to Goodnight Ladies have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lou Reed and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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