Lyrics to
You Gotta Dance

This version of You Gotta Dance was released by Alice Cooper in 1976.

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We like to throw our bodies around
We like to feel each other
We’re all slaves when we hear that sound
Says dance
Says dance
Says ya gotta dance
Says dance
And there ain’t no two ways about it
We’re all compelled to rise and thrust
When we all move together
We’re hypnotized with savage lust
Says dance
Says dance
Says ya gotta dance
Says dance
I’m so hot it makes me shiver
Makes me wet
Makes me slide
It’s some spirit I’m possessed by
I can’t stop
We just got to dance
Dance
Dance
W egotta blow when we says blow
And we gotta shake and shimmy
We got the strings tied to our soul
Says dance
Says dance
Says we gotta dance
(And I don’t mean tomorrow)
Says dance

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About Lyrics and You Gotta Dance by Alice Cooper

The lyrics for You Gotta Dance are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Alice Cooper. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to You Gotta Dance 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 You Gotta Dance - Alice Cooper 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 You Gotta Dance by Alice Cooper 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 You Gotta Dance" means the words set to the music of You Gotta Dance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. 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 You Gotta Dance and the lyrics to You Gotta Dance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Gotta Dance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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