Lyrics to
Heartache Tonight

This version of Heartache Tonight was released by Eagles in 1979.

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Somebody’s gonna hurt someone
before the night is through
Somebody’s gonna come undone.
There’s nothin’ we can do.
Everybody wants to touch somebody
if it takes all night.
Everybody wants to take a little chance,
Make it come out right.

There’s gonna be a heartache tonight,
a heartache tonight, I know.
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight, I know.
Lord, I know.

Some people like to stay out late
Some folks can’t hold out that long
But nobody wants to go home now.
there’s too much goin’ on.

This night is gonna last forever.
Last all, last all summer long.
Some time before the sun comes up
The radio is gonna play that song.
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight,
A heartache tonight, I know.
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight,
A heartache tonight, I know.
Lord I know.

There’s gonna be a heartache tonight,
the moon’s shinin’ bright
so turn out the light, and we’ll get it right.
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight, a
heartache tonight I know.
Heartache baby,

Somebody’s gonna hurt someone, (somebody)
Before the night is through
Somebody’s gonna come undone,
There’s nothin’ we can do
(Everybody) Everybody wants to touch somebody
if it takes all night
Everybody wants to take a little chance
To make it come out right

There’s gonna be a heartache tonight
A heartache tonight, I know
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight,
A heartache tonight ,I know
Let’s go.
We can beat around the bushes;
we can get down to the bone
We can leave it in the parkin’ lot,
but either way, there’s gonna be a
heartache tonight, a heartache tonight I know.
There’ll be a heartache tonight
a heartache tonight I know.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Heartache Tonight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Eagles. Some of the lyrics to Heartache Tonight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eagles and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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