"Stayin' Alive" — the Saturday Night Fever opener. The strut, the falsetto, the most recognisable bass line in disco history.
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', people,
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
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', people,
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin' alive.
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', people,
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life's goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.
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- From Saturday Night Fever (1977). Hit #1 in the US for four weeks. The tempo (100 BPM) was later found to be ideal for CPR compressions. John Travolta's walk to this song is one of cinema's iconic opening sequences.