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It’s Not The Spotlight

Released by Rod Stewart in 1975
From the Album: Atlantic Crossing |

This version of It’S Not The Spotlight was released by Rod Stewart in 1975.

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If I ever feel the light again shining down on me,
I don’t have to tell you what a welcome it will be.
I felt the light before but I let it slip away,
but I still keep on believing that it’ll come back some day.

It’s not the spotlight, it’s not the cam’ra light,
it’s not the street lights of some old street of dreams.
It ain’t the moonlight, not even the sunlight,
but I’ve seen it shining in your eyes and you know what I mean.

Some times I try to tell myself the light was never real,
just a fantasy that used to be, the way I used to feel.
But you and I know better, even though it’s been so long,
if your memory really serves you well, you’ll never tell me no wrong.

It’s not the spotlight, it’s not the cam’ra light,
it’s not the streetlights of some old street of dreams.
It ain’t the moonlight, not even the sunlight,
but I’ve seen it shining in your eyes you know what I mean.

So if I ever feel the light again shining down on me,
I don’t have to tell you what a welcome it would be.
I felt the light before but I let it slip away,
but I still keep on believing that it’ll come back some day.

It’s not the spotlight, it’s not the cam’ra light,
it’s not the streetlights of some old street of dreams.
It ain’t the moonlight, not even the sunlight,
but I’ve seen it shining in your eyes and you know what I mean.


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Rod Stewart has released many songs over the years besides It’S Not The Spotlight. Rod Stewart released songs from 1969 to 2005 spanning across albums like An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down, Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story, Never A Dull Moment, Smiler, Atlantic Crossing, A Night On The Town, Foot Loose & Fancy Free, Blondes Have More Fun, Foolish Behavior, Tonight I'm Yours, Body Wishes, Camouflage, Every Beat Of My Heart, Out Of Order, Vagabond Heart, Lead Vocalist, Unplugged... And Seated, A Spanner In The Works, If We Fall In Love Tonight, When We Were The New Boys, Human, It Had To Be You... The Great American Songbook, Stardust...The Great American Songbook: Volume III, and Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook: Volume IV. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Rod Stewart.

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About Lyrics and It’S Not The Spotlight by Rod Stewart

The lyrics for It’S Not The Spotlight are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Rod Stewart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to It’S Not The Spotlight 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 It’S Not The Spotlight - Rod Stewart 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 It’S Not The Spotlight by Rod Stewart 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 It’S Not The Spotlight" means the words set to the music of It’S Not The Spotlight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. 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 It’S Not The Spotlight and the lyrics to It’S Not The Spotlight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S Not The Spotlight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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