Lyrics to
Midnight Ride

This version of Midnight Ride was released by Styx in 1975.

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Gonna get you while you sleep
Give you a dream you can keep
To yourself little mama gonna make you feel better

I’m your mystery man in a gold Lincoln
Ain’t no reason to do any second thinkin’
About it child

Midnight ride I’m gonna shake ya
Midnight ride I’m gonna break ya
Midnight ride I’m gonna take you on a
Midnight ride

Meet you little girl back at my hotel
Between you and me we’re really gonna give ’em hell

I got something mighty special up my sleeve
All you got to do is just say please

Midnight ride I’m gonna shake ya
Midnight ride I’m gonna break ya
Midnight ride I’m gonna take you on a
Midnight ride

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About Lyrics and Midnight Ride by Styx

The lyrics to Midnight Ride are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Styx used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Midnight Ride have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Styx and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Midnight Ride by Styx. 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 Ride" means the words set to the music of Midnight Ride, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Styx. 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 Ride and the lyrics to Midnight Ride are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Styx who came here looking just for the lyrics to Midnight Ride, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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