When you get caught between the moon and New York City

The best that you can do CHA CHA CHA The best that you can do CHAKA KHAN Is fall in love

Is the only way to sing those lyrics

those lyrics actually make perfect sense... he's on a plane flying over NYC and there's a full moon... and he realizes he's in love... duh!

Read this, then walked over to get breakfast - where the lyrics “Between the moon and New York City” was blaring. Thanks for the deja vu, OP.

I agree with OP. Great movie. Didn't like the dreary song. The plane thing....okay, that makes sense. Got it. Although they were never on a plane in the movie, I'm glad you explained the lyrics.

I know. It's crazy. But it's true.

The full story of those lyrics: Peter Allen was on a plane towards NYC, when the plan had to circle for a while before landing. The flight attendant said something like "we're stuck between the moon and New York City," and Peter wrote down the line, to later use in a song.

He was writing with Carole Bayer Sager, and used that line in a song, but they never finished it. Years later, she was writing a song with her then-husband, Burt Bacharach and Christopher Cross, and that line fit perfectly in what they were writing, so she used it. She later called Peter to tell him, thinking that he would let her use the song, but not take any writer's credit for it. She was surprised that he demanded full writer's credit for the line. He was not involved with the writing of the song in any other way. It is the most memorable line in the song, but I'm surprised he didn't take a smaller portion of the writer's credit. ,

R6 Beyonce and Madonna have taken full writing credit for adding the word "baby."

I remember when the song won the Oscar, Bette Midler was announcing and mocked it for having so many writers "Four on a song."

Carole Bayer Sager, the Queen of Bland, Middle-Brow Housewife Pop