Lyrics to
Just For Tonight

This version of Just For Tonight was released by Steppenwolf in 1975.

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Walk the lonely highway
Neon signs light the road
Won’t you help me find the right way
To a place of time and hope

Where we all get kind of mellow
And where life is not a joke
We’re here today gone tomorrow
All in life is ours to own

You are with me, I won’t ask you why, you are old enough to know
I will move you, and we’ll draft away, then tomorrow I will go

Just for tonight, I will love you darlin’, just for tonight

Is this cycle never ending
Or am I not meant to know
Lost in life am I pretending
Chasing winds that never blow

Yet in my life I’ve know many
Sharing moments as we go
Yes we’ve all had times so empty
That if someone asked we’d go

I have held you, in a special way, but I won’t see you again
As I leave you sorrow blinds my eyes to the things that are within

Just for tonight, I will love you darlin, Just for tonight

As I touch you, we will say goodbye, ’cause the times has come to go
You believe me, and I want to say, I will never let you go

Just for tonight, I will love you darlin, Just for tonight
Just for tonight, I will love you darlin, Just for tonight

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About Lyrics and Just For Tonight by Steppenwolf

When you decide to study the lyrics to Just For Tonight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Steppenwolf. Some of the lyrics to Just For Tonight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Steppenwolf and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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