Lyrics to
My Roommate

This version of My Roommate was released by Village People in 1978.

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I swear to you people, it must be my fate.
The cards were against me, now there’s no escape.
I have this here problem, who keeps me up late.
(My roommate, my roommate.)

He thinks he’s the greatest, dancer of all time.
He never stops dancin’, he’s out of his mind.
In the bathroom singing, a pitch out of time.
(My roommate, my roommate.)

I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
(I can’t take much more.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he’s driving me insane.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he plays so many games.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he breaks all of the rules.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he is a dancing fool.)

I go to the closet, to put on my coat.
Instead on the hanger, I find pinned a note.
“I went to the disco, I took your best coat.”
(My roommate, my roommate.)

I come home real early, thinking he’s asleep.
Instead I am greeted, by big ugly feet.
“I’ve got this new dance step, five, six, seven, eight.”
(My roommate, my roommate.)

I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
(I can’t take much more.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he’s driving me insane.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he plays so many games.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he breaks all of the rules.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he is a dancing fool.)

He’s a dancin’ fool, ya’ll.
Well, let me tell you about him.

Well, talkin’ ’bout my roommate:

My roommate is the kind of guy,
who likes his music playin’ high.
My roommate is the kind of guy,
who likes his music playin’ high.
He dances all night, he dances all day.
He dances all night, he dances all day.

I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
I can’t sleep the day, noon or night.
(I can’t take much more.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he’s driving me insane.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he plays so many games.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he breaks all of the rules.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he is a dancing fool.)

(My roommate, my roommate, he’s driving me insane.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he plays so many games.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he breaks all of the rules.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he is a dancing fool.)

(My roommate, my roommate, he’s driving me insane.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he plays so many games.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he breaks all of the rules.)
(My roommate, my roommate, he is a dancing fool.)

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About Lyrics and My Roommate by Village People

The lyrics for My Roommate are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Village People. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to My Roommate have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for My Roommate - Village People and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to My Roommate by Village People in multiple 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 My Roommate" means the words set to the music of My Roommate, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Village People. 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 My Roommate and the lyrics to My Roommate are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Village People who came here looking just for the lyrics to My Roommate, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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