"Stayin' Alive (Edited Version)" lyrics
"Stayin' Alive (Edited Version)"
(from "Staying Alive" soundtrack)
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
Music loud and women warm
I've been kicked around since I was born
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Oh, when you walk
Life's goin' nowhere, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah
I'm stayin' alive
Life's goin' nowhere
Thanks to nano estremera for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Fernando Luis Lopez Rossi, Barry Alan Gibb, Maurice Ernest Gibb, Pablo Daniel Durand, Robin Hugh Gibb, Jose Adolfo Verde
Robin Gibb explained the meaning of this song, saying, "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' is actually quite a serious one; It's about survival in the streets of New York, and the lyrics actually say that". Barry Gibb also added, "Everybody struggles against the world, fighting all the bullshit and things that can drag you down. And it really is a victory just to survive."
This song was featured in the film "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) which represented the disco era, so the song became tightly bound with disco, though the Bee Gees had been popular as a vocal harmony group prior to the film, and they disliked the fact that everybody began to label them as a disco singers. Robin Gibb said in a 1989 interview with Q magazine, "We were not disco. People who emulated us were disco."
This was one of five songs the Bee Gees wrote specifically for the "Saturday Night Fever" film. Robert Stigwood, who produced the film, got the idea from a New York Magazine article about discomania and the Brooklyn club scene. The line in the song "We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man" is a reference to that.
The soundtrack, this song belong to, was a huge success: it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and became the best-selling album ever until it was toppled down by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1982). It still remained the best-selling soundtrack of all time until the soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" (1992) overtook it.
This song is one of the band's most recognizable songs. It won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement For Voices. It wasn't going to be a single but fans requested this song so much from radio stations after seeing the film's trailers that it was eventually released as a single one month after the soundtrack album.
Besides single and soundtrack versions of this song, spanning 4:43 and 3:29 respectively, there was one "Special Disco Version" having 6:59 in length released on twelve-inch vinyl to those club DJs and radio stations which specialised in airing longer versions of hit songs. This version was later released on the "Bee Gees Greatest" album in 2007.
"Staying Alive" is the title of the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever". The sequel was directed by Sylvester Stallone and Bee Gees wrote some song for its soundtrack too.
This song was featured in the film "Look Who's Talking" (1989) starring John Travolta.
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"Staying Alive" (1983)
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