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Non-Stop Dancing

This version of Non-Stop Dancing was released by The Jam in 1977.

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Non-stop dancing, truly out on the floor
Non-stop moving, baby, baby
Still you scream out for more
We don’t care if it rains or shines
Cause everything’s fine inside, when we’re dancing
Non-stop dancing
I said, non-stop loving, with my girl by my side
Everything’s just cool, now baby, baby
She’s the sweetest thing I know
I don’t even mind guys trying to compete
I know our love’s as strong as the beat, when we’re dancing
Non-stop dancing
People say we’re wasting our time
They don’t seem to understand
Cause when you’re dancing all night long
It gives you the feeling that you belong
Non-stop dancing, I’m truly out of my head
But I ain’t sleepy, baby, baby
You see the dance is my bed
Things are really getting wild
The kids are screaming for that James Brown style, when we’re dancing
Non-stop dancing

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Non-Stop Dancing, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Jam. Some of the lyrics to Non-Stop Dancing have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Jam and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Non-Stop Dancing if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Non-Stop Dancing" means the words set to the music of Non-Stop Dancing, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. 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 Non-Stop Dancing and the lyrics to Non-Stop Dancing are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to Non-Stop Dancing, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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