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Midnight On The Bay

This version of Midnight On The Bay was released by Neil Young in 1976.

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It’s midnight on the bay
And lights are shinin’
And the sailboats sway
And that cool ocean breeze.
Blowin’ down through the keys
I think I’ll call it a day
Oh, midnight on the bay.
Sure feels good to me.

What’s this I see
There’s someone comin’
Walkin’ right up to me
She tells me I know your name
And if it’s all the same
I’d like to spend some time.
And midnight on the bay
Sure feels good to me.

And now it’s midnight on the bay
Lights are shinin’
On the sailboats that sway
In the cool ocean breeze
Blowin’ down through the keys
I think I’ll call it a day
Oh, midnight on the bay.
Sure feels good to me.

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The lyrics to Midnight On The Bay are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Neil Young in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Midnight On The Bay are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Neil Young and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Midnight On The Bay back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Midnight On The Bay by Neil Young in a number of 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 Midnight On The Bay" means the words set to the music of Midnight On The Bay, 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 Midnight On The Bay and the lyrics to Midnight On The Bay 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 Midnight On The Bay, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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