Lyrics to
Night Spots

This version of Night Spots was released by The Cars in 1979.

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could be you’re crossing the fine line
a silly driver kinda, off the wall
you keep it cool when it’s t-t-tight
eyes wide open when you start to fall
you go dancing in the dim lit club
some pressure cooker
crawls up on his knees
flashing sensation like a one on one
stomping around in the jitterbug breeze
oo how you shake me up and down
when we hit the nightspots on the town
it’s all behind you when you do catch on
you keep your lovers in a penny jar
a real romantic with a sultry stare
you keep messing with your blonde long hair
it’s just an automatic line

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About Lyrics and Night Spots by The Cars

The lyrics for Night Spots are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by The Cars. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Night Spots 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 Night Spots - The Cars 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 Night Spots by The Cars 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 Night Spots" means the words set to the music of Night Spots, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cars. 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 Spots and the lyrics to Night Spots are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cars who came here looking just for the lyrics to Night Spots, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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