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The Night Was So Young

This version of The Night Was So Young was released by Beach Boys in 1977.

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The night was so young and everything still
The moon shining bright on my window sill
I think of her lips, it chills me inside
And then I think why does she have to hide

Is somebody gonna tell me why she has to hi-i-ide
She’s passin’ it by, she won’t even try
To make this love go where it should

The sky’s turnin’ gray, there’s clouds overhead
I’m still not asleep, I’m in my bed
I think of her eyes and it makes me sigh
I think of her voice and it makes me cry

Is somebody gonna tell me why she has to lie-i-ie
She’d be so right to hold me tonight
Love was made for her and I

It’s three o’clock I go to my sink
I pour some milk and I start to think
Is she asleep or is she awake
And does she think of the love we could make

Wake up, call me baby call me tell me what’s on your mi-i-ind
I’ve got a car and you’re not too far
Please let me come over to you

The night was so young and everything still
The moon shining bright on my window sill
I think of her lips, it chills me inside
And then I think why should she hide

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The lyrics for The Night Was So Young are defined as the words making up the song released by Beach Boys in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to The Night Was So Young have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Beach Boys and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to The Night Was So Young by Beach Boys if you think through it. 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 Night Was So Young" means the words set to the music of The Night Was So Young, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Beach Boys. 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 Night Was So Young and the lyrics to The Night Was So Young are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Beach Boys who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Night Was So Young, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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