Lyrics to
Night In The City

This version of Night In The City was released by Three Dog Night in 1971.

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Light up light up
Light up your lazy blue eyes
Moon’s up nights up
Taking the town by surprise
Night time night time
Day left an hour ago
City light time
Must you get ready so slow
There are places to come from and places to go
Night in the city looks pretty to me
Night in the city looks fine
Music comes spilling out into the street
Colors go flashing in time
Take off take off
Take off your stay-at-home shoes
Break off shake off
Chase off those stay-at-home blues
Stairway stairway
Down to the crowds in the street
They go their way
Looking for faces to greet
But we run on laughing with no one to meet
Night in the city looks pretty to me
Night in the city looks fine
Music comes spilling out into the street
Colors go waltzing in time

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Three Dog Night has released many songs over the years besides Night In The City. Three Dog Night released songs from 1968 to 1976 spanning across albums like Three Dog Night, Suitable For Framing, It Ain't Easy, Naturally, Harmony, Seven Separate Fools, Cyan, Hard Labor, Coming Down Your Way, and American Pastime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Three Dog Night.

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About Lyrics and Night In The City by Three Dog Night

The lyrics to Night In The City are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Three Dog Night in 1971. Elements of the lyrics to Night In The City are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Three Dog Night and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Night In The City back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Night In The City by Three Dog Night 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 Night In The City" means the words set to the music of Night In The City, 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 Night In The City and the lyrics to Night In The City 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 Night In The City, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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