Lyrics to
Starstruck

This version of Starstruck was released by Rainbow in 1976.

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If I’m high on a hill
She’d still been looking down at me
What does she see that brings her closer every day to my heart
If I’m away from home
And think I’m all alone
She’s there, somewhere
I look around to see
And looking back at me
She’s there, beware!

Creeping like a hungry cat
Seen it before
I know it can mean that

The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck
The lady starstruck, running after me
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck, yeah

I could fly to the moon
But she’d soon find a way to be there
I never knew for a while that a smile made ’em really care

She wants a souvenir
To everyone it’s clear
She’s hooked – with one look
She wants a photograph
And everybody laughs but not me ’cause I see

She’s creeping like a hungry cat
I’ve seen it before
I know I can mean that

The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck
The lady starstruck, running after me
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck, oh oh o-o-oh
Oh my
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck
The lady starstruck, running after me, yeah
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck, yeah

It used to be a game
Now I can’t repeat my name at all
She seems to believe that
I never can refuse a call

She wants a souvenir
To everyone it’s clear
She’s hooked! With one look!
She wants a photograph
And everybody laughs, hah!
But not me ’cause I see

She’s creeping like a hungry cat
I’ve seen it before
I know it can mean that

The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck
The lady starstruck, running after me
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck, bad luck
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck

The lady starstruck running after me
The lady starstruck, she’s nothing but bad luck
Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck
And back of a tree, looking back at me
Climbing up my stair
I’ve just got to beware
Lady starstruck, yes, she’s bad luck, bad luck

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About Lyrics and Starstruck by Rainbow

When you decide to study the lyrics to Starstruck, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Rainbow. Some of the lyrics to Starstruck have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rainbow and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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