Lyrics to
Waitin’ For The Night

This version of Waitin’ For The Night was released by The Runaways in 1977.

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Shades of gray don’t fade away
They’re waitin’ for the night
Goin’ out is what we’re about
We’re waitin’ for the night

Friends and foes movin’ fast and movin’ slow
We’re waitin’ for the night
Hangin’ around so astounded
Waitin’ for the night

Waitin’ for the night
Waitin’ for the night
Days are taken
Waitin’ for the night

At the hall havin’ a ball
Waitin’ for the night
Don’t care, don’t care at all
Cause we’ve seen, we’ve seen it all
Waitin’ for the night

Waitin’ for the night
Waitin’ for the night
Days are taken
Waitin’ for the night

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About Lyrics and Waitin’ For The Night by The Runaways

When you decide to study the lyrics to Waitin’ For The Night, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Runaways. Some of the lyrics to Waitin’ For The Night have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Runaways and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Waitin’ For The Night 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 Waitin’ For The Night" means the words set to the music of Waitin’ For The Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Runaways. 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 Waitin’ For The Night and the lyrics to Waitin’ For The Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Runaways who came here looking just for the lyrics to Waitin’ For 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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