Lyrics to
Slow Motion

This version of Slow Motion was released by Blondie in 1979.

Visit the Blondie Lyrics profile at Decade Lyrics - it has the Slow Motion lyrics as well as the rest of the songs by Blondie.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Blondie or about the 1970s in general.

What’s all that commotion going on?
The boy in the back on his second attack
Wants his baby back (wants his baby back)
What’s all that commotion that you hear?
The girl in the back who was doing the quake
Got a belly-ache, she can’t concentrate
Pick up the beat, you can move like you’re made out of vapour
“Catch me if you can” is what she said with her hands
Come on and take me back (can you take her back?)
When she gives you the beat and you get the shine
The world slows down and she stops on a dime
Got a number when you close your eyes
Like a real magician
Still she knows she’ll never lose a thing
She can put you up on a shelf until she wants to pull the string
Still you know she’ll never slip away
Keep time in your head, counting in your head

Slow motion, I can play with time
I can keep today but tomorrow’s fine
Stop and look at the pictures rolling in your head
Slow motion, you can play with time
You can leave her today but tomorrow’s fine
Stop and live in your dreams at night
Rolling in your bed

Slow motion, you can stop on a dime
Slow motion, you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can pick up the beat
Slow motion, you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can stop on a dime
Slow motion, you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can pick up the beat
Slow motion, you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Blondie?

Blondie has released many songs over the years besides Slow Motion. Blondie released songs from 1976 to 2003 spanning across albums like Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican, The Hunter, No Exit, and The Curse Of Blondie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Blondie.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1979 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Slow Motion by Blondie

The lyrics to Slow Motion are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Blondie used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Slow Motion have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Blondie and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Slow Motion by Blondie. 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 Slow Motion" means the words set to the music of Slow Motion, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blondie. 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 Slow Motion and the lyrics to Slow Motion are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blondie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Slow Motion, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Blondie

Visit our Blondie profile for more Blondie songs, lyrics & info!

)