Lyrics to
Home Tonight

This version of Home Tonight was released by Aerosmith in 1976.

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Now it’s time
To say good night to you
Now it’s time
To bid you sweet adieu

And maybe, drink a cheers to yesterday
And maybe, you’ll drink those tears away

So baby, don’t let go
Hold on real tight
‘Cause i’ll be home tonight
Tonight

So baby, don’t let go
Hold on real tight
‘Cause i’ll be home tonight
Tonight
Tonight

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About Lyrics and Home Tonight by Aerosmith

The lyrics for Home Tonight are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Aerosmith. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Home Tonight have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Home Tonight - Aerosmith and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Home Tonight by Aerosmith in multiple ways. 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 Home Tonight" means the words set to the music of Home Tonight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Aerosmith. 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 Home Tonight and the lyrics to Home Tonight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Aerosmith who came here looking just for the lyrics to Home Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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