Lyrics to
Strangers In The Night

This version of Strangers In The Night was released by Bette Midler in 1976.

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Ooooooh. Wooooh.
Strangers in the night, exchanging glances,
wondering in the night what were the chances
we would fall in love before the night was through.

Something in your eyes was so exciting,
and in your smile, ooh, inviting.
In my heart I knew I must have you.

Strangers in the night, lonely people.
Strangers in the night up to the moment
we said our first hello. Little did we know
love was just a glance away, embracing dance away.
It’s just a glance away. It’s just a chance away.

Dancin’, dancin’ in the night. Stranger,
c’mon, c’mon, treat a stranger right.
I’m dancin’, dancin’ in the night. Stranger,
I say what’s on my mind.
Let us be lovers. Yeah, it’s gonna be all right
for strangers in the . . .

Yeah, woo-hoo!
I’m dancin’, dancin’ in the night.
Hello stranger. C’mon, whoa.
Dancin’, I’m dancin’ in the night. Hello stranger.
Woo. I’m dancin’ in the night. Hello stranger.
Oh-wo. Ohhhh.

Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be
Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be strangers.
No, Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be
Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be strangers.
Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be
Doo-be-doo-be-doo. Don’t wanna be strangers.
No, no, nooo, don’t wanna be strangers.
No. Strangers. Woo!

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About Lyrics and Strangers In The Night by Bette Midler

The lyrics for Strangers In The Night are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Bette Midler. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Strangers In The Night 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 Strangers In The Night - Bette Midler 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 Strangers In The Night by Bette Midler 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 Strangers In The Night" means the words set to the music of Strangers In The Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Strangers In The Night and the lyrics to Strangers In The Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Strangers 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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