Dance The Night Away

Album: Van Halen II (1979)
Charted: 15
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  • Have you seen her?
    So fine and pretty
    Fooled me with her style and ease
    And I feel her
    From across the room
    Yes, it's love in the third degree

    Ooh, baby, baby
    Won'tcha turn your head my way?
    Ooh, baby, baby
    Ah, come on, take a chance
    You're old enough to

    Dance the night away
    Oh
    Come on, baby, dance the night away

    A live wire, barely a beginner
    But just watch that lady go
    She's on fire, 'cause dancin' gets her higher than
    Anything else she knows

    Ooh, baby, baby
    Won'tcha turn your head my way?
    Ooh, baby, baby
    Well, don't skip romance, 'cause
    You're old enough to

    Dance the night away
    Oh
    Come on, baby, dance the night away

    Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh yeah

    Dance the night away (hey, hey, yeah)
    Dance, dance, dance the night away
    Oh, come on, baby (dance the night away) hey, hey yeah
    Dance, dance, dance the night away
    Uh, come on, baby, baby
    Dance the night away, ooh, ooh, yeah
    Dance, dance, dance the night away ah, ha ow Writer/s: Alex Van Halen, David Roth, Edward Van Halen, Michael Anthony
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 9

  • Susan from LouisvilleThe song was explained by DLR in the first concert of their 2007 tour in Charlotte NC. He said that a girl had been having sex in a car in the parking lot of the small venue they were playing and she walked back inside with her pants on backwards. She began to dance in front of the band and that led to him write Dance the Night Away.
  • Chris from Beaver Falls, PaMay the good "lord" meaning "god", be with you on every road you are on, saying may god be with you always and everywhere, the song "Forever Young" sung by Rod Stewart says. And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you are far from home, meaning everywhere you are and always. And in the Garden of Eden, everyone was naked and not ashamed, and God said to be fruitful and multiply. The relationships between the sexes, of course men and women, is what keeps all of us, any of us, with God, and God with us. The relationships between the sexes keep all of us, forever young. Sex, and dancing also. Dancing is rather suggestive, definately romantic, fun, pleasurable, enjoyable. Dancing with the stars. A man and a woman plan, and practise, and rehearse, and dream, and hope to "Dance the night away" in front of an audience, and on national TV. And as Van Halen says also, the way to be young, to be alive, a live wire, to be "high" not on drugs per se, however to have God with you, to have sunshine and happiness surround you, is to dance dance dance. If you don't dance, you feel old, tired, worn out etc. not as vibrant as you could be. So until you dance your old enough to dance the night away, be forever young, and reach higher personally and spiritual to your dancing partner and to God. People say that life is struggles, problems, not easy to pay bills. This song teaches all of us how to have more style and ease, fun, be youthful, not to be feel old and stressed, nervous, worried etc. Think of previous generations. The roaring 20's, the big band era, the 50's, the disco years. Dancing, dancing parties, dinner and dancing clubs and parties, the discotec. Song and dance. Music and dance.
  • Mike from Luvshuck, PaRuss from virginia may be right...
  • Austin from Bristow, VaPerfect song to listen to on New Year's Eve. Love Van Halen.
  • Russ from Richmond, VaLolita was the stripper but the title didn't have commercial appeal. The title changed but the lyrics didn't. This was a song based on scoring a sexy stripper. Take a second look...
  • Matthew from Tampa, Fl"style and ease!" That makes a lot more sense than "Stalinese."
  • Tom from St. Louis, MoThis song is great, heard it live!
  • Susan from Scarsdale, Mtlove van halen
  • John from Greeneville, TnOne of the only times in VH's career that a guitar solo was omitted. Too much time was spent trying to construct the guitar solo and it never worked out. According to Eddie, the solo for "DTNA" originally was nearly exact to "Jump". Guitar players, try that one out and you'll see why it was omitted.
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