Flashdance (What a Feeling)

by Irene Cara

This song was co-written by Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara for the 1983 movie Flashdance. That year it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

First, when there’s nothing but a slow glowing dream
That your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind
All alone I have cried silent tears full of pride
In a world made of steel, made of stone

Well I hear the music, close my eyes, feel the rhythm
Wrap around, take a hold of my heart

What a feeling, being’s believing
I can have it all, now I’m dancing for my life
Take your passion, and make it happen
Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life

Now I hear the music, close my eyes, I am rhythm
In a flash it takes hold of my heart

What a feeling, being’s believing
I can have it all, now I’m dancing for my life
What a feeling

What a feeling (I am music now), being’s believing (I am rhythm now)
Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life
What a feeling (I can really have it all)
What a feeling (Pictures come alive when I call)
I can have it all (I can really have it all)
Have it all (Pictures come alive when I call)
(call, call, call, call)

Vocabulary:

glowing: shining
pride: a feeling of your own worth (adjective = proud)
steel: a very hard metal
rhythm: the beat of the music
wrap: enclose, surround
passion: the thing that you must do to have a complete life
flash: a very short time, instant