Lyrics to
Spotlight

This version of Spotlight was released by Elton John in 1979.

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Night life, hot spot light
I’ve gotta make them dance tonight
Night life, hot spot light
I really want to shine tonight
Night life, hot spot light
I gotta steal a heart tonight
Night life, hot spot light
I’ll show them how to dance tonight

I know that the competition’s heavy
I know that these guys are cool
But I’ll show this kid is more than ready
I sure got something to prove

Right now I’m just another guy
I don’t mean nothing to them
but when they see me dance
When they see me dance

Right now the music’s moving higher
I feel them stepping up the beat
These shoes will set the floor on fire
Everybody on your feet

You thought that you’d seen the best
Well I can tell you, forget the rest
When you see me dance
When you see me dance

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Elton John has released many songs over the years besides Spotlight. Elton John released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Empty Sky, Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John, Madman Across The Water, 11/17/2010, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player), Caribou, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, Rock Of The Westies, Blue Moves, A Single Man, Victim Of Love, 21 At 33, The Fox, Jump Up!, Too Low For Zero, Breaking Hearts, Ice On Fire, Leather Jackets, Reg Strikes Back, Sleeping With The Past, The One, Duets, Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop, Made In England, The Big Picture, One Night Only, Songs From The West Coast, and Peachtree Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elton John.

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About Lyrics and Spotlight by Elton John

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

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