Lyrics to
One Night In A Lifetime

This version of One Night In A Lifetime was released by Donna Summer in 1979.

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There’s more to question than answers
And sand will slip through your hands
And love is faster than lightning
So grab it while you can mm, mm, mm…

Well I’ve been searching forever
Between the bad and the good
But now I know what I’m missing
And I wanna make it with you

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And babe it’s gotta be tonight
Babe it’s gotta be tonight

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it should be tonight
Baby it should be tonight

One night in a lifetime
One night, one night, one night
In a lifetime, one night

They say that love is a gamble
And luck will play a trick or two
But I’ll risk all of my loving
I’d put my last buck on you

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it’s gotta be tonight
Baby it’s gotta be tonight

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it’s gotta be tonight
Baby it’s gotta be tonight

One night in a lifetime
One night, one night, one night
In a lifetime, one night

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it’s gotta be tonight
Baby it’s gotta be tonight

One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it should be tonight
Baby it should be tonight

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About Lyrics and One Night In A Lifetime by Donna Summer

When you decide to study the lyrics to One Night In A Lifetime, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Donna Summer. Some of the lyrics to One Night In A Lifetime have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Donna Summer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to One Night In A Lifetime 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 One Night In A Lifetime" means the words set to the music of One Night In A Lifetime, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Donna Summer. 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 One Night In A Lifetime and the lyrics to One Night In A Lifetime are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Donna Summer who came here looking just for the lyrics to One Night In A Lifetime, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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