Lyrics to
Night People

This version of Night People was released by Robert Palmer in 1978.

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Night people, hanging out
Looking at each other waiting for something to happen
Night people, hanging out
Looking at each other
Waiting for something to happen

While the day world is sleeping
Night people are creeping, hanging out
Looking at each other
When the day world stops moving
Night people start grooving, hanging out
Looking at each other
When the day bees stop buzzing
Night people start coming, hanging out
Waiting for something to happen
Night people, hanging out
Looking at each other
Waiting for something to happen

You don’t get one thing
Without the other
We got to keep the world alive
If everybody went to sleep
At the same time,
How’d we keep the world alive

In a word we got the night people,
Night people, hanging out
Looking at each other
Waiting for something to happen

Got to see who is with you
Who is with me, who is with who, we’re hanging out
Looking at each other
Got to see whatcha wearing, whatcha got
Whatcha sharing, hanging out
Waiting for something to happen

As the day world goes by
Night people doing fine, hanging out
Looking at each other
When the day world starts humping
Night people start pumping, hanging out
Waiting for something to happen
Night people hanging out
Looking at each other
Waiting for something to happen
Night people, hanging out
Looking at each other
Waiting for something to happen
Night people grooving, hanging out
Night people grooving
Night people grooving
Night people grooving
Night people grooving
Night people grooving

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Robert Palmer has released many songs over the years besides Night People. Robert Palmer released songs from 1974 to 2003 spanning across albums like Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley, Pressure Drop, Some People Can Do What They Like, Double Fun, Secrets, Clues, Pride, Riptide, Heavy Nova, Don't Explain, Ridin' High, Honey, Rhythm & Blues, and Drive. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Robert Palmer.

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About Lyrics and Night People by Robert Palmer

The lyrics to Night People are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Robert Palmer in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Night People are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Robert Palmer and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Night People 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 People by Robert Palmer 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 People" means the words set to the music of Night People, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Robert Palmer. 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 People and the lyrics to Night People are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Robert Palmer who came here looking just for the lyrics to Night People, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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