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Strangered In The Night

This version of Strangered In The Night was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1976.

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Well it was dark at midnight
There was hardly any moon
And no one really saw much
No one was really sure
But something didn’t seem right
Something was kinda queer
A roar turned into whispers
Everyone stood there

As the sound spilt the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night

Well I didn’t see no shotgun
I didn’t see no knife
But I saw this crazy black guy
With the demon in his eye
And I heard him say “white man”
I’ve seen that silver cue
You don’t remember me well
But I remember you

As the sound spilt the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night

Well the knife just left his fingers
As the black guy took his aim
White guy’s head exploded
The black guy howled in pain
Then everybody scattered
I heard some woman scream
God damn you old black bastard
You’ve blown away my dreams

As the sound spilt the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night

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The lyrics to Strangered In The Night are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Strangered In The Night have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 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 Strangered In The Night by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. 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 Strangered In The Night" means the words set to the music of Strangered In The Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. 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 Strangered In The Night and the lyrics to Strangered In The Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Strangered In The Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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