Lyrics to
Last Dance

This version of Last Dance was released by Neil Young in 1973.

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Wake up! It’s a Monday morning
No time left to say goodbye
Can’t breathe
and the lights are changing.
You can live your own life
Making it happen
Working on your own time
Laid back and laughin’
Oh no, oh no.

Headlights,
make it home by sundown
Feeling that the day is through
Return back
to where you come from
You can live your own life
Making it happen
Working on your own time
Laid back and laughin’
Oh no, oh no.

You wake up in the mornin’
And the sun’s comin’ up.
Its been up for hours
and hours and hours
And hours and hours and hours
It’s been up for hours
and hours and hours
And you light up the stove
And the coffee cup, its hot.
And the orange juice
is cold, cold, cold
Monday morning,
Wake up, wake up,
wake up, wake up
Its time to go,
Time to go to work.

You can live your own life
Making it happen
Working on your own time
Laid back and laughin’
Oh no, oh no.
No, no, no.

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About Lyrics and Last Dance by Neil Young

When you decide to study the lyrics to Last Dance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Last Dance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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