Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone

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Revvin' up your engine
Listen to her howlin' roar
Metal under tension
Beggin' you to touch and go

Highway to the danger zone
Ride into the danger zone

Headin' into twilight
Spreadin' out her wings tonight
She got you jumpin' off the track
And shovin' into overdrive

Highway to the danger zone
I'll take you
Ridin' into the danger zone

You'll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red line overload
You'll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go

Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge
The hotter the intensity

Highway to the danger zone
Gonna take you
Right into the danger zone

Highway to the danger zone

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Lyrics submitted by Nelly

Track duration: 03:37

"Danger Zone" as written by Buzz Feiten, William Smith

Lyrics © Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:Different meanings to different people, I guess. I take it as maybe a woman maybe because of a bad past "revving up his engine". Listen to her "howlin roar" could mean bitching & complaing in a sense. She can sense that this man is a "ticking time bomb" of sorts & her own tension is rising, so rather than maintain a relationship, it's best to touch & go in very literal terms. She knows that if they don't, she could be taking the "highway into or riding into the danger zone". So, she's heading out & "spreading out her wings" to live her life. She may feel that eventually she'll have him "jumping off the deck & shoved into overdrive" Fighting could take place, so she could be running before it takes place & she knows no different because she may have seen or been through it. "Out along the edges, always where I burn to be" She has thrived on fighting in the past. "The further on the edge, the hotter the intensity"....fighting can be "hot & intense", but then again dangerous depending on how it would go.
    Flag karrie3074on December 10, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song is tainted by its association with "Top Gun". And, since it was supposedly written *for* Top Gun, it highlights what we already know about Hollywood and everything it touches: Hollywood has the money to buy your complicity in its designs. They could even afford to have Kenny Loggins write a song which could be neatly dovetailed into a well-made but ultimately anti-progressive and anti-enlightenment movie like Top Gun.

    Loggins is a great craftsman and a fine artist. It was just sort of sad to see his abilities co-opted in this way.
    Flag razajacon December 23, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:This is clearly about whatever you want it to mean. Homosexuality -- sure. If you're a practicing homosexual. However this is a rather lame and pathetic co-option by the gay community of an extremely hetero song (and movie). Sure Maverick loves Goose and Iceman, but it's a brotherly love, not an erotic one. The real sparks fly between Maverick and Ms. McGillis.

    At any rate Kenny brings the full force of his imagination to bear with this song. It's just fantastic.
    Flag vranakon May 15, 2010   Link
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    Lyric Correction:She got you jumpin' off the track...

    it should be jumpin' off the deck, i.e. the deck of an aircraft carrier.
    Flag LoneRanger94on March 06, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:dpf62984

    I'm pretty sure it was Giorgio Moroder who contributed the most of the composing for this song. Check wikipedias article for example.
    " "Danger Zone" is a rock song from the soundtrack to the 1986 American motion picture Top Gun. It was composed by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, and performed by Kenny Loggins."

    And you can clearly hear the resemblance to Moroder's other compositions, for example in the scarface soundtrack.
    So if anything, you should call Giorgio Moroder a genius ;) hehee.
    Flag Durang0on December 12, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I hate Top gun, but I love this song.

    (one of those "I that I hate the fact that I love it" songs)
    Flag mirandajuneon September 22, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:And McCartney and Lennon...duh, sorry.
    Flag dpf62984on April 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Yes he wrote it. He is a song writing genius. One of the greatest actually. And he and Michael Mcdonald are the greatest songwriting duo EVER. Followed closely by Vinnie and Dimebag RIP.
    Flag dpf62984on April 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Top Gun is actually a movie about accepting your own homosexuality. A very fitting theme for the 80's with the AIDS scare and general prejudice against homosexuals.
    This theme is also expressed in the only way possible at that time. Very subtley and underlying the whole movie.

    Yes, the movie is about Maverick facing up to the challenges of Top Gun and the death of Goose but if you watch the movie again knowing it was written by a gay man for a gay actor who still publicly denies his homosexuality you will notice endless references to Maverick's inner conflict.

    The final scene is the clincher with the musical score singing,

    "We had a love, a love, a love you don't find everyday"

    This love being Maverick and Goose's homosexual relationship.
    As Maverick goes into kiss Kelly Mcguilles as the screen fades to black the lyrics are singing,

    "So don't, don't, don't let it slip away!"

    "I need your love, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back!"

    This references Tom Cruise holding onto who he really is and not pretending to be straight and going the way everyone tells him.
    Flag DarkenRahlon October 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:My faveourite film of all time, and this song is up there in my fabourite songs, would be great to fly as a pilot, to this song, ive riden a motorbike to it before, and even though i couldnt go thgat fast (just a 123cc) it still feels so fast, and with this playing in my helmet (i rigged headphones) it was.... sublime.
    Flag Avatar-rockon August 09, 2006   Link

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