Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive (Music Video)

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Published on September 17, 2020 by admin

Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive

Lyrics
(from “Staying Alive” soundtrack)

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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.
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And now it’s all right. It’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
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Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breakin’
And everybody shakin’,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive.
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Well, now, I get low and I get high,
And if I can’t get either, I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes.
I’m a dancin’ man and I just can’t lose.

You know it’s all right. It’s OK.
I’ll live to see another day.
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 breakin’
And everybody shakin’,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive.
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Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin’ alive.
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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 OK.
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 breakin’
And everybody shakin’,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive.
.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.
.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.
.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.
.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.

Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive has a story of its own. 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 recognisable 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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