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Love & Passion Quote by Bonnie Tyler

"We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life"

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Repetition is the punchline here, and Bonnie Tyler knows it. "We all have a great time" sounds like the blandest possible backstage summary, the kind you’d expect from a press junket trained to sand off personality. Then she pivots: "And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again". Suddenly the line isn’t about one wild night; it’s about the rhythm of a working performer’s life, the grind disguised as party. The structure matters: short clauses, plain verbs, no embellishment. It’s a diary entry with stadium lights flickering behind it.

The subtext is a quietly defiant normalcy. Tyler’s career is built on drama - a voice like a weather system, songs engineered for maximum emotional altitude. Here she refuses the myth of the tortured artist and replaces it with something almost stubbornly ordinary: sleep, wake, repeat. It’s not a confession, it’s a boundary. The "we" gives the audience and crew their moment of communal joy, but the "I" reasserts control: she gets to exit the spectacle, reset, and choose it again.

"I like my life" lands as the thesis and the flex. For women in pop, especially those whose biggest hits get treated as retro artifacts, contentment can read as resistance. No tragic backstory, no performative suffering - just a professional insisting that the loop is the point.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Tyler, Bonnie. (2026, January 17). We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-a-great-time-and-then-i-go-to-bed-get-39670/

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Tyler, Bonnie. "We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-a-great-time-and-then-i-go-to-bed-get-39670/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-a-great-time-and-then-i-go-to-bed-get-39670/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Bonnie Tyler (born June 8, 1953) is a Musician from Welsh.

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