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I’ll Be With You Tonight

This version of I’Ll Be With You Tonight was released by Cheap Trick in 1979.

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Tonight, tonight, I’ll be with you tonight.
Tonight, tonight, I’ll be with you tonight, tonight, tonight.

You got me burnin’, burnin’ with desire,
You got me burnin’, burnin’ like a fire, oh yeah.

You got me thinkin’, thinkin’ what I’ll do,
No doubt about it, I want it with you.
Though you’re not my first love,
You just might be my last.
My heart is poundin’ like a drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, yeah.
Tonight will be the first night that I’ve been in love with you.
You get me so excited, I’m not sure what I’m gonna do.
Tomorrow you won’t be here, and I don’t expect you to.
Tonight is all I really want, I really want from you.

Tonight, tonight, I’ll be with you tonight.
Tonight, tonight, I’ll be with you tonight.
Tonight, tonight.

Everything about you is more than everything
You make me crazy, I’m doin’ crazy things, oh yeah.
Tonight when I first saw you I knew it had to be,
Why’d you have to be so right for me?
Though you’re not my first love, you just might be my last.
My heart is poundin’ like a drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, yeah.
Tonight will be the first night that I’ve been in love with you.
You get me so excited, I’m not sure what I’m gonna do.
Tomorrow you won’t be here, and I don’t expect you to.
Tonight is all I really want, I really want from you.
Tonight, from you, from you.

Oo, tonight, be with ya, I’ll be with ya, I’ll be with ya, I’ll be with ya tonight, tonight.

I’ll be with ya.

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The lyrics for I’Ll Be With You Tonight are defined as the words making up the song released by Cheap Trick in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I’Ll Be With You Tonight have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Cheap Trick and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to I’Ll Be With You Tonight by Cheap Trick if you think through it. 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 I’Ll Be With You Tonight" means the words set to the music of I’Ll Be With You Tonight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cheap Trick. 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 I’Ll Be With You Tonight and the lyrics to I’Ll Be With You Tonight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cheap Trick who came here looking just for the lyrics to I’Ll Be With You Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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