Lyrics to The Disco Strangler

This version of The Disco Strangler was released by Eagles in 1979.

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Lookin’ for the good life
dressed to kill
She don’t have to worry ’cause
there’s always someone else who will
Loose and loaded every night
Dancin’ underneath the flashin’ light
sayin, “Look at me, baby, look at me.
I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful, I’m somebody.”
Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler

He’s been around here all along, baby,
Been waiting for his time to come.
You lookin’ for attention, darlin’
He will surely give you some

He’s the crimson in your face du jour,
the fiddler in your darkest night.
He’s the melody without a cure and
Rome is burning, but that’s all right.
Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler
Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler

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About Lyrics and The Disco Strangler by Eagles

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Disco Strangler, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Eagles. Some of the lyrics to The Disco Strangler have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eagles and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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