Lyrics to
Midnight Runaway

This version of Midnight Runaway was released by Three Dog Night in 1972.

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Find my way back home. I don’t know if I want to go.
All I want to know, can I keep doing all these shows? Yeah
Haven’t got the time to worry over little things.
Fighting for some time to be alone, all alone.
Take you for a ride. I’ll take you where you wanna go.
Are you ready for a ride? Make me feel that you want to go.
Can’t they understand I’m tired of this business scene?
I gotta get away make me feel that I’m in a dream.

Won’t you be my midnight runaway?
Won’t cha take the time to runaway with me?
Feeling fine tonight, we’ll runaway.
Should we head for the hills or to the sea?

They’re messing with my head.
I need a little time to think.
Worryin’ every night, can I float, will I sink?
Can’t they understand? I’m tired of their ruthless game.
I gotta get away, or you know I’ll go insane.

Won’t you be my midnight runaway?
Won’t cha take the time to runaway with me?
Feeling fine tonight, we’ll runaway.
Should we head for the hills or to the sea?

Won’t cha be my runaway?
Won’t cha take the time to runaway with me?
Feelin’ fine, let’s runaway,
Should we head for the hills or to the sea?

Can’t they understand,
Haven’t got much time,
Ready for a ride?
Haven’t got much time, can’t they see?
Do, do they understand?
I need a helping hand,
I gotta get away, get away, yeah.
Awww.
Got to get to me.
Awww.
Can’t, can’t they understand why?
Don’t they understand,
Can’t, can’t they understand why?
Oh, got to get away
Can’t, can’t they understand why?
Don’t they understand…

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About Lyrics and Midnight Runaway by Three Dog Night

The lyrics for Midnight Runaway are defined as the words making up the song released by Three Dog Night in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Midnight Runaway have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Three Dog Night and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Midnight Runaway by Three Dog Night if you think through it. 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 Runaway" means the words set to the music of Midnight Runaway, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. 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 Runaway and the lyrics to Midnight Runaway are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to Midnight Runaway, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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