Lyrics to
Heartbeat

This version of Heartbeat was released by The Runaways in 1977.

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Thousands cheered as you appeared
The band was playing
We drove away that Saturday
I wanted you knew where you were staying
Backstage lied about my age
Didn’t care that you were older

Stop look listen to my heartbeat
Stop look listen to my heartbeat

Here you are a superstar
But I sing and play in my own way
You got your fans and I got mine
But I need your love that’s the bottom line
I sing lead and so do you
Get together what will we do?

Stop look listen to my heartbeat
Stop look listen to my heartbeat

Danced all night till the room was light
You said goodbye I wondered why
Radio played you couldn’t stay
You’d miss your plane in the morning rain
Here I am in the limousine
Once again the lonely queen

Stop look listen to my heartbeat
Stop look listen to my heartbeat

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About Lyrics and Heartbeat by The Runaways

When you decide to study the lyrics to Heartbeat, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Runaways. Some of the lyrics to Heartbeat have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Runaways and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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