OT:LONG: Blue Ouster Cult lyrics
Colonel Panic
Here's my collection of BOC lyrics - it contains everything through
"Imaginos". I haven't gotten 'round to adding the songs from "Heaven
Forbid" yet.
I didn't transcribe these, and there are two versions of Imaginos I
haven't reconciled yet.
Have fun, and apologies to anyone who feels they wasted their time
downloading this. I won't do it again :)
Terry
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Blue Oyster Cult
TRANSMANIACON MC
With satan's hog no pig at all, and the weather getting dry
We'll head south from altamont in a cold blooded travelled trance
So clear the road my bully boys and let some thunder pass
We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives,
We're transmaniacon MC
Behind the pantry, behind the tree, the ghouls adopt that child
Whose name resounds forever, whose name resounds on terror
And I'm no fool to call that hog, cause man I remember
Those who did resign their souls
To transmaniacon MC
And surely we did offer up behind that stage at dawn
Beers and barracuda, reds and monocaine
Pure nectar of antipathy behind that stage at dawn
To those who would resign their souls
To transmaniacon MC
Cry the cable, cry the word, unknown terror's here
And won't you try this tasty snack, behind the scenes or but the back
Which was the stage at altamont, my humble boys of listless power:
We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives
We're transmaniacon MC
I'M ON THE LAMB BUT I AIN'T NO SHEEP
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Canadian mounted baby, a police force that works
Red and black, that's their color scheme
get their man, in the end
It's all right, it's all right.
Frontenac chateau baby
I'll cross the frontier at ten
Got a whip in my hand baby
And a girl or a husky at leather's end
It's all right, it's all right
My lovely bel punice, you'd kill and you'd maim
Hornswoop me bungo pony, dogsled on ice
Make a dash for freedom baby, don't skate on polar ice
It's to thick to be sliced by the light
Of long and white polar nights
It's all right, it's all right
My lovely bel punice, you'd kill and you'd maim
LAST DAYS OF MAY
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Parched land no desert sand, sun was just a dot
And a little bit of water goes a long way, 'cause it's hot
Three good buddies were laughing and smoking in the back
Of a rented ford
They couldn't know they weren't going far
Each one with the money in his pocket
Could go out and buy himself a brand new car
But they all had the money they had
Money they hoped would take them very far
The sky was bright, a traffic light, now and then a truck
And they hadn't seen a cop around all day
They brought everything they needed
bags and scales to weigh the stuff
The driver said the border's just over the bluff
It wasn't until the car suddenly stopped
In the middle of a cold and barren place
And the other guy turned and spilled
Three boys blood, did they know a trap had been lain?
They're ok the last days of may, I'll be breathing dry air
I'm leaving soon, the others are already there
You wouldn't be interested in coming along, instead of staying here
They say the west is nice this time of year
STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
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You can have my autograph
I think I'll sign it love to you
But should I sign it just for you
Stairway to the stars, I think I'll write good health to you
Stairway to the stars, we got better things to do
You can drive my motorcar
It's insured to thirty thou
Kill them all if you wish
Stairway to the stars, I think I'll write good health to you
Stairway to the stars, we got better things to do
You can have my autograph
I think I'll sign it good health to you
Upon the cast, your broken arm
Stairway to the stars, I think I'll write good health to you
Stairway to the stars, I hope you heal up real quick
Stairway to the stars...
Come on, let's get on outa here.
BEFORE THE KISS
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So grab your rose and ring side seat,
We're back home at Conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo,
Reds and wine, cokes of course
Oh my suzy, my suzy,
Why did we ever start
It's morning now, you'd never know
The gin, the gin, glows in the dark, glows in the dark
And underneath, the black light,
Underneath it all
Four and forty redheads meet,
Come to doom 'til the dawn
With threats of gas and rose motif
Their lips apart like a swollen rose
Their tongues extend, and then retract
A redcap, a redcap, before the kiss, before the kiss.
Doors like flint and window panes
An endless shadow bar
The owner's boys have gone to work
To stop big deals behind the bar
While outside on the turnpike
They got this new hit tune
Where thrills become as cheap as gas
And gas as cheap as thrills
One thrill and mundane here at last
Expect the cross one more
Lecherous invisible
Beware the limping cat
Whose black teeth grip between loose jaws
Still ripe and fully bloomed
A rose that's not from anywhere
That you would know or I would care
And the owners boys act most cheerfully
Back home at Conry's bar
When their patrons' thoughts at last
Grow too big for their skulls
And awful things are happening
We've let this drama fold
And now the time has come at last
To crush the motif of the rose.
So grab your rose and ring side seat
We're back home at Conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo
Reds and wine, cokes of course
Oh my suzy, my suzy
Why did we ever start
It's morning now, you'd never know
The gin, the gin, glows in the dark, glows in the dark
SCREAMS
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Screams in the night, sirens delight
Heat, broken glass, Satan's bred trash
Big city madness, comfort my soul
Give me a home where I can grow
String of bright lights running up to the sky
Throughout the hot night, the cars racing by
You know they all see, but most of them pass
She drives by my wares, don't hide in your glass wheel
Screams in the night, sirens delight
Heat, broken glass, Satan's bred trash
Big city madness, comfort my soul
Give me a home where I can grow
Sounds of guitars fill up the night
Can't make me feel, I said its alright
In one hotel bed, you think you can grow
If you find a home, please let me know
SHE'S AS BEAUTIFUL AS A FOOT
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She's as beautiful as a foot
She's as beautiful as a foot
She heard somebody say, the other day
Didn't believe it when he bit into her face
Didn't believe it when he bit into her face
It tasted just like a fallen arch
She's as beautiful as a foot
She's as beautiful as a foot
She heard somebody say, the other day
Don't put your tongue on the bloody tooth mark place
Don't put your tongue on the bloody tooth mark place
Her face changing now, a guernsey cow
She's as beautiful, oh so beautiful, beautiful as a foot
She heard someone say, the other day
CITIES ON FLAME
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My heart is black, and my lips are cold
Cities on flame with rock and roll
Three thousand guitars they seem to cry
My ears will melt, and then my eyes
Oh, let the girl, let that girl, rock and roll
Cities on flame now, with rock and roll
Gardens of nocturne, forbidden delights
Reins of steel, and it's alright
Cities on flame, with rock and roll
Marshal will buoy, but Fender control
Let the girl, let that girl rock and roll
Cities on flame now, with rock and roll
My heart is black, and my lips are cold
Cities on flame with rock and roll
Three thousand guitars they seem to cry
My ears will melt, and then my eyes
Let the girl, let that girl rock and roll
Cities on flame now, with rock and roll
WORKSHOP OF TELESCOPES
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By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky
By those who see with their eyes close
They know me by my black telescope
Your green tree mantle from which these things derive
A lens of quartz and refract spoke that crystal lens
Whose crystal rope once bound me to those
Doctors and wives
When my vision was oh, so cloudy
And I saw things through two eyes
I am a sailor on the raging depths
And I know a thing or two
Back to the corner mates and over the side
Yes I know a thing or two
By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky
By those who see with their eyes closed
you'll know me by my black telescope
Before my great conversion when the ridge was closed
Before my visit to the workshop of telescopes
By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky
By those who see with their eyes closed
you'll know me by my black telescope
REDEEMED (SIR RASTUS BEAR)
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Don't you give up my young young friend
Here's a story I think will please
How sir Rastus Bear was in fact redeemed
Redeemed from the cell to which he'd been thrown
By men whose love was more for the ice and cold
Goblins of surcease, villains of wise
They pranced your brain all through the long long night
Sir Rastus Bear who'd ever believe
You'd be by a song redeemed?
Up on the north forty, I'm sure it was christmas day
When sir Rastus Bear taught children how to play
Games of life and love, and songs, oh, those songs
Oh those deep but true, healed (?) country songs
Goblins of surcease, villains of wise
They pranced your brain all through the long long night
Sir Rastus Bear who'd ever believe
You'd be by a song redeemed?
Redeemed, good lord, from the ice and cold
Redeemed from the cell to which I've been thrown
Redeemed by virtue, of a country song
And I believe that lord, It won't be long
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation (1973)
Produced by Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman
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THE RED AND THE BLACK
( - A. Bouchard - E. Bloom - S. Pearlman - )
Canadian Mounted, baby
Police force at work
Red and black
It's their color scheme
Get their man
In the end
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Ah yeah my honies know it's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Ah yeah baby knows it's all right
You'd kill, you'd maim....Ah, c'mon kill 'em
You'd kill, you'd maim....Look out
C'mon my husky
Frontenac Chateau baby
I cross the frontier at ten
I got a whip in my hand, baby
And a girl or a husky
At leather's end
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Ah yeah baby knows it's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Yeah baby yeah it's all right
You'd kill, you'd maim....Ah, c'mon kill 'em now
You'd kill, you'd maim
Hornswoop me bungo pony on dogsled on ice
Make a dash for freedom baby
Don't skate on polar ice
It's too think to be sliced
By the light
Of long and white polar nights
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Yeah baby knows it's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............It's all right
It's all right............Yeah knows it's all right
You'd kill, you'd maim....Ah, c'mon kill 'em now
You'd kill, you'd maim....Maim 'em too
Ah, break it up
OD'D ON LIFE ITSELF
( - E. Bloom - A. Bouchard - J. Bouchard - S. Pearlman - )
How could I fool you I rest and assure you
Take it off from here and put you on the line, yeah
Your back to the pistol and iron bullets whistle
Landscape's open and the world is mine, it's still mine
OD'd on life, life itself
OD'd on life, life itself
OD'd on life itself
Writings appear on the wall
The curtains part and landscape fall
There the writings done in blood
Yeah, like a mummy's inscription and a bat wing tongue
Well then the mouth of the cave will open up wide
Wide as the world that's mine, it's mine, it's
Still mine
So don't you fear the trade in life
Life loves force but force loves life
This wedding by heaven was made up in hell
With the victim as bride and life, life itself
OD'd on life, life itself (repeat ad nauseam)
HOT RAILS TO HELL
( - J. Bouchard - )
Riding the underground
Swimming in sweat
A rumble above and below
Hey cop don't you know?
The heat's on alright
The hot summer day didn't quit for the night
1277 express to heaven
Speeding along like dynamite
1277 express to heaven
Rumbles the steel like a dogfight
You caught me in it's spell
Trying to leave but you know darn well
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
Blackened out eyes
Scratched on the wall
Stoned out looks from the crowd
The king will not know
On the wall it was said
The flash of his cards was sprayed with red
1277 express to heaven
Speeding along like dynamite
1277 express to heaven
Rumbles the steel like a dogfight
You caught me in it's spell
Trying to leave but you know darn well
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
SEVEN SCREAMING DIZ-BUSTERS
( - A. Bouchard - J. Bouchard - D. Roeser - S. Pearlman - )
They held their heads with laughs of pain
They learned from men who'd just refrain
From glancing at a mirror's face
Seven screaming diz-busters
Who lurked behind the rose
Cast iron for a bloodstream
And ice behind their eyes
On each and all those holy nights
When dusters dust becomes the sale
And Lucifer the light
The light
They're long so long this time of year
When stars be crossed by twirling fear
You don't suppose I'd prove surprised
Seven screaming diz-busters
Should go the route and die
Without that warmth they've learned to crave
With hardened smiles and evil signs
Bury me near the secret cove
So they'll not know the way
Bury me there behind the rose
So they'll not rile my grave
I'll not reveal whose name still lost
Well their laughs of pain
And their harder smiles
And their rigid arms
And their evil signs
Yeah, the longer days ah, the longer nights
Oh, yeah the longer
Yeah, they're longer still
On each and all those holy nights
When dusters dust becomes the sale
And Lucifer the light
BABY ICE DOG
( - A. Bouchard - E. Bloom - P Smith - )
I had this bitch you see
She made lies to me
Her deceit ah, it gave me a chill
But I found out now
That baby, that baby ice dog
She said we would wed
In Mongolian country
Lilies shoot free
But she was a-stoning me
In the mountains, no
Her intent it was all too clear
All too clear
It was quite a sin
How the ice caved in
I was numb
I could not assist
Baby ice went down
To the cold cold cold ground
I said "Baby...that's the breaks"
Turn me around like broke down hound now
Crossing me once too often
Now she's bound for a lower station
She crossing me once too often
Hey baby, don't cross me, baby
I'm bad
And now the ladies all fear this Mongolian man
With ice down his face
You know I get involved
In unnatural acts
With the aid of my cold cold stare
They'd like to make it
With my big black dog
But they just don't know how to ask
You know they'd like to try
Anything that comes into their minds
Ahh, Freeze on now, baby
Freeze on freeze on freeze on bone to bone
Freeze on freeze on freeze on
Freeze on freeze on freeze on bone
Freeze on freeze on freeze on freeze on
WINGS WETTED DOWN
( - A. Bouchard - J. Bouchard - )
Flights of black horseman
Soar o'er the churches
Pursued by an army of birds in the rain
None of them can see the clouds
The polished wings don't care
Animal waves through the hazy
Dreams full of pain
Wings wetted down
Stumbling on the ground
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
The voices sound deadly
Sometimes I hear
Echoes of empires
Spread throughout the sky
Wings wetted down
Stumbling on the ground
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
Flights of black horseman
Soar o'er the churches
Pursued by an army of birds in the rain
Wings wetted down
It all turns around
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
TEEN ARCHER
( - D. Roeser - E. Bloom - R. Meltzer - )
She got less than you or I
She got less than me
She got less than you or I
She got less than me
She get
She get
Tired
She gets tired
She got more than you or I
She got more than me
She got more than you or I
She got more than me
She get
She get
Wild
She gets wild
Ballin' all night ballin' all day
She won't ball on me
Ballin' all night ballin' all day
She won't ball on me
She will
She will
Smile
She will smile
She will laugh
She will die
She don't care
Cryin' all night, cryin' all day
She will cry for me
Cryin' all night, cryin' all day
She will cry for me
She will
She will
Smile
She will smile
She will laugh
She will die
She don't care
MISTRESS OF THE SALMON SALT
( - A. Bouchard - S. Pearlman - )
In the garden district
Where the plants grow strong and tall
Behind the bush there lurks a girl
Who makes them strong and tall
The villagers call her
Quicklime girl........Behind her back
Quicklime girl........Behind the bush
Quicklime girl
She's the mistress of the salmon salt
Quicklime girl
Quicklime girl
Quicklime girl
In the fall when plants return
By harvest time she knows the score
Ripe and ready to the eye
Yet rotten somehow to the core
And they call her
Quicklime girl........Behind her back
Quicklime girl........Behind the bush
Quicklime girl
She's the mistress of the salmon salt
Quicklime girl
Quicklime girl
Quicklime girl
A harvest of life a harvest of death
One body of life one body of death
And when you've gone and choked to death
With laughter and a little step
I'll prepare the quicklime, friend
For your ripe and ready grave
For your ripe and ready grave
It's springtime now and cares subside
And the planning's almost done
And fertile graves it seems exist
Within a mile of that Duke's joint
Where Coast Guard crews still take their leave
Quite listless in the sun
And the quicklime girl still plies her trade
The reduction of the many from the one
And they call her
Quicklime girl........Behind her back
Quicklime girl........Behind the bush
Quicklime girl
She's the mistress of the salmon salt
Quicklime girl
Quicklime girl........They call her
Quicklime girl
A harvest of life, a harvest of death
Resumes its course each day
It comes as if by schedule
A harvester lifts his arms to the rain
And toes that crawl
And knees that jerk
And necks like swans that seem to turn
As if inclined to gasp or pray
Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres (1977)
Produced by Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas and
Blue Oyster Cult
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GODZILLA
( - D. Roeser - )
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!
GOLDEN AGE OF LEATHER
( - B. Abbott - D. Roeser - )
Raise your can of beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have past us by
The golden age of leather
This was the night not long to come
In the year of our Lord A.D.
Where in a desert way-house poised on the brink of eternity
Four and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor
As only drunken soldiers can
And passed from man to man
A wanton child to dead to care
That each would find his pleasure as he might
For this fantastic night was billed
As nothing less than the end of an age
A last crusade
A final outrage
In this day of flaccid plumage
And there was worn no cloth but leather
Made supple by years of stinging cinders
And here were seen the scars of age
For age had been the common call for one last night together
Dawn colored the sky......The ritual ceased
Some had died.............They were buried with their bikes
Each grabbed a rag........From a man with a sack
Torn strips of color......The red and the black
I cam here willingly
And I will go down valiantly
We made a vow
To give it all we had to give
We made a vow
To die as we had lived
They flew the colors they began to fight
They flailed at each other like bugs at a light
Bodies and bikes beyond repair
Smell of oil and gas in the air
Then the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand
And the humans and the Harleys caught the shifting sand
The old ranger weathered the storm
And he topped the rise by the middle of morn
He saw rippled dunes
Calm and surreal
And a glint of a solitary shaft of chromium steel
Golden age...
DEATH VALLEY NIGHTS
( - R. Meltzer - A. Bouchard - )
Bleached by the sun
And scorched by the moon
If I make it 'til tomorrow noon I'm leaving
'Tween the horror of space
And the terror of time
My heart in crystal down the line I'm screaming
What I need is a kiss from you babe
Before it's hangover time
What I need is some love from you babe
Before this stampede arrives
Desolate landscape
Storybook bliss
My darling let me tell you this - it's crazy
Hell of a memory
Is a heaven of pain
Snow is cold but so is rain please save me
What I need is a kiss from you babe
Before it's hangover time
What I need is some love from you babe
Before this stampede arrives
Oh babe.......................What I need kiss from you babe
Before it's hangover time.....What I need love from you babe
Before this stampede arrives
Babe..........................What I need death valley nights
Babe babe...................What I need death valley nights
Babe..........................What I need
I need you....................Death valley nights
Before I lose my mind
I need you....................What I need death valley nights
What I need
To run away...................Death valley nights
Get away......................What I need
Outer space...................Death valley nights
Just run away.................What I need
I need you....................Death valley nights
SEARCHIN' FOR CELINE
( - A. Lanier - )
I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
I've been searching, searching for her company
Find her where she's working
Find her where she hides
I know why she's cursing
She knows why I lie
I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
I've been searching, searching for her company
Find her where she's sleeping
I know why she's tired
I know why she's cursing
She knows why I lie
She said
"Love is like a gun
And in the hands of someone like you
I think it'd kill
But oh, what a thrill
Oh, what a thrill
No oh!
I've been talking, talking, talking in my sleep
I've been talking, talking, talking to Celine
Talking 'bout your love
Talking 'bout your love
Talking 'bout your love
Do you know what I said?
I said
"Love is like a gun
And in the hands of someone like you
I think it'd kill
But oh, what a thrill
Oh, what a thrill
Oh oh!
FIREWORKS
( - A. Bouchard - )
She went down to her house by the water
To hide herself from his grasp
He went down to the water to find her
To consumate their love at last
Then the lightning flashing.........lightning, flashing, crashing
Fireworks shooting off in her head..in her head
The earth was shaking...............earth, shaking, quaking
Fireworks pouring down on her head..on her head
Only sound she heard was............sound, lovely word
Fireworks like a charm..............annointed
Blazing red
She went down to escape from her prison
To free herself from her fear
All those years up to here with tradition
And opportunity so near
Then the lightning flashing.........lightning, flashing, crashing
Fireworks shooting off in her head..in her head
The earth was shaking...............earth, shaking, quaking
Fireworks pouring down on her head..on her head
Only sound she heard was............sound, lovely word
Fireworks like a charm..............annointed
Blazing red
She went down on a snow white pillow
To cast herself in the looking glass
He knew the time had finally come now
To break the spell they shared at last
Then the lightning flashing.........lightning, flashing, crashing
Fireworks shooting off in her head..in her head
The earth was shaking...............earth, shaking, quaking
Fireworks pouring down on her head..on her head
Only sound she heard was............sound, lovely word
Fireworks like a charm..............annointed
Blazing red
R. U. READY 2 ROCK
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
Come on come on
To the station of night
Come on come on
Everybody's waiting
Come on come on
With the signal in sight
Come on come on
There's a new tune playing
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Who will rock with you.......Oh woman will you
Come on come on to the cities of night
Come on come on everybody's praying
Come on come on for the wonder of light
Come on come on there's a new day breaking
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Who will rock with you.......Oh woman will you
I ain't gonna catch those countdown blues
I ain't gonna catch those countdown blues
I ain't gonna catch those countdown blues
I only live to be born again
I only live to be born again
I only live to be born again
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Are you ready to rock?.......Yes I am
Who will rock with you.......I know now
Who will rock with you.......I see somebody
Who will rock with you.......Somebody like you
Who will rock with you.......Yeah
CELESTIAL THE QUEEN
( - H. Wheels - J. Bouchard - )
I'm out of my place I'm out of my mind
I'm totally bent in the big time
There's no place for one of my kind
Scorn behind shades I don't care anyway
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
Her world turns around
In my ears the sound of laughter
Swift descent
Dark and mute dreams deceive
Her world turns around me
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
She came from the dark she came from a dream
All leather and chain the rising Queen
Born into the night born into the spotlight
She spread her wings and then she was gone
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
The world turns around
In my head the fairy laughter
Swift ascent and then forever
It meant nothing
The world turns around me
Celestial the Queen
Celestial the Queen
GOIN' THROUGH THE MOTIONS
( - E. Bloom - I. Hunter - )
Too wild to care
You got animal stare
You got "stay anywhere" in your eyes
Think you're leading me on but you can be anyone
'Cause I know you'll be gone 'fore I rise
And we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Going through the motions
Staying with you gave us something to do
I almost thought it was true for a while
'Cause there's love in your lies
You're so thinly disguised
You couldn't tell right from wrong if you tried
And we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Going through the motions
To thee I dedicate this photograph
I'll even sign it "love to you" again
And when it's faded and forgotten in some book
You'll sometimes look
You'll sometimes look
You'll sometimes look
It's a game, it's a game
No let's call it a shame
'Cause there's no one to blame just to pay
You were a friend for a day
So don't cry if I say
That you got what you want, it's OK
And we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Going through the motions
Yeah, yeah, we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Yeah, we're going through the motions
Going through the motions
I LOVE THE NIGHT
( - D. Roeser - )
That night her kiss told me it was over
I walked out late into the dark
The misty gloom seems to soak up my sorrow
The further I went on
I felt a spreading calm
Then suddenly my eyes were bathed in light
And the lovely lady in white was by my side
She said "Like me I see you're walking alone
Won't you please stay?"
I couldn't look away
She said
I love the night
The day is OK and the sun can be fun but I live
To see those rays slip away
I love the night
There's so much I can show and give to you
If you will welcome me tonight
If only you had been there my dear
We could have shared this together
No mortal was meant to know such wonder
One look in the mirror told me so
Come darkness I'll see her again
Yes I'm gonna go
'Cause now I know
I love the night
The day is OK and the sun can be fun but I live
To see those rays slip away
I love the night
I love the night
I love the night
NOSFERATU
( - H. Wheels - J. Bouchard - )
Deep in the heart of Germany
Lucy clutched her breast in fear
She heard a beat of her lover's heart
For weeks she raved in dreams he appeared
From far off Transylvania
Only a woman can break his spell
Pure in heart who will offer herself
To Nosferatu
This ship pulled in without a sound
The faithful captain long since cold
He kept his log till the bloody end
Last entry read "Rats in the hold.
My crew is dead - I fear the plague"
Only a woman can break his spell
Pure in heart who will offer hefself
Mortal terror reigned
Sickness now then horrible death
Only Lucy knew the truth
And at her window
Nosferatu
So chaste, so calm, she gave herself
To the pleasure of the dreaded master
He sucked the precious drops of life
Throughout the long and cold dark night
One last goodbye, he was blinded by love
One last goodbye, he was blinded by love
Blinded by love
He screamed with fear, he'd stayed too long in her room
The morning sun had come too soon
The spell was broken with a kiss of doom
He vanished into dust, left her all alone
Only a woman can break his spell
Pure in heart, who will offer herself
Only a woman can break his spell
Pure in heart who will offer herself
To Nosferatu
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties (1974)
Produced by Murray Krugman & Sandy Pearlman
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CAREER OF EVIL
( - A. Bouchard - P. Smith - )
I plot your rubric scarab,
I steal your satellite
I want your wife to be my
Baby tonight, baby tonight
I choose to steal what you chose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking
I'm making a career of evil
Pay me I'll be your surgeon
I'd like to pick your brain
Capture you inject you
Leave you kneeling in the rain
Kneeling in the rain
I choose to steal what you chose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking
I'm making a career of evil
I'd like your blue eyed horseshoe,
I'd like your emerald horny toad
I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road
And then I'd spend your ransom money,
But still I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing,
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep
I choose to steal what you chose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking
I'm making a career of evil
SUBHUMAN
( - E. Bloom - S. Pearlman - )
I am becalmed
Lost to nothing
Warm weather and
Holocaust
Left to die by two good friends
Abandoned me and put to sleep
Left to die by two good friends
Tears of god flow as I bleed
So ladies fish and gentlemen
Here's my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
Oyster boys are
Swimming for me now
Save me from the
Death-like creatures
Oyster boys are swimming now
Hear them chatter on the tide
We understand, we understand
But fear is real and so do I
So ladies fish and gentlemen
Here's my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
Oyster boys are
Swimming for me
Just one deal is what
We made now
Forest keys and whirlwind cold
Green keys too and keys of gold
And even locks that don't explode
When the skies become a scroll
So ladies fish and gentlemen
Here's my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION
( - A. Bouchard - E. Bloom - S. Pearlman - )
Oh yeah
I spent ten years, half my life
Just getting ready, then it was time
Warpage in my figures, radios appear
Midnight was the barrier, back in 1963
Each night the covers were unfolded
Each night it's Susie's turn to ride
While Charles, the one they call her brother
Covers on his eyes
Murmurs in the background
It will be time
Oh yeah
Susan and her brother, Charles the grinning boy
Put me in the backseat, and they took me for a ride
Yeah, the radio was on - can't you dig the locomotion
Kingdoms of the radio, 45 RPM
Too much revolution, then
Each night the covers were unfolded
Each night it's Susie's turn to ride
While Charles, the one they call her brother
Covers on his eyes
Murmurs in the background
It will be time
It's past midnight said Charles the grinning boy
And looking at me greedily, said it's 1964
In Times Square now people do the polka
Dominance....Submission...radios appear
This New Year's Eve was the final barrier
Dominance....Submission...radios appear
We took you up and we put you in the back seat
Dominance....Submission...radios appear
From year to year we looked out for the venture
Dominance....Submission...radios appear
Dominance....Submission
ME 262
( - E. Bloom - D. Roeser - S. Pearlman - )
Goering's on the phone from Freiburg
Says Willie's done quite a job
Hitler's on the phone from Berlin
Says I'm gonna make you a star
My Captain Von Ondine is your next patrol
A flight of English bombers across the canal
After twelve they'll all be here
I think you know the job
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers are ripe and ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
In a G-load disaster from the rate of climb
Sometimes I'd faint and be lost to our side
But there's no reward for failure - but death
So watch me in mirrors keep in the glidepath
Get me through these radars, no, I cannot fail
While my great silver slugs are eager to feed
I can't fail - No, not now
When twenty five bombers wait ripe
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers are ripe and ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
Me-262 prince of turbojet
Junker's Jumo 004
Blasts from clustered R4M quartets in my snout
And see these English planes go burn
Well, you be my witness, how red were the skies
When the fortresses flew for the very last time
It was dark over Westphalia
In April of '45
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers are ripe and ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
Must these Englishmen live that I might die...Junker's jommo 004
Bombers at 12 o'clock high
CAGEY CRETINS
( - A. Bouchard - R. Meltzer - )
Ooo cagey - what you got?
What you got there dummy?
What you got there man?
Ooo cagey - what you got?
What you got there honey?
What is it, a worm?
Dumb clouds are raging
Stupid clouds at my door
Creepy weather coming
Coming 'round my floor
Dumb clouds stay away
Don't come back no more
Ooo cagey - what you got?
Got an awful tummy,
Oh no it's inflamed
Ooo cagey - what you got?
It's so lonely honey
In the state of Maine
Dumb clouds are raging
Stupid clouds at my door
Creepy weather coming
Coming 'round my floor
Dumb clouds stay away
Don't come back no more
I'm graduating in one more term
Because I haven't any time to burn
Repeating taste of high-heeled shoe
An eel is waiting under the train
Being chased around by the neighbor's cat
Well it's so lonely in the state of Maine
Dumb clouds are ringing
Ringing in my ear
Mother's wombs are crying
Ringing in my fear
Mothers never run
Except when rape is near
Ooo cagey
HARVESTER OF EYES
( - D. Roeser - E. Bloom - R. Meltzer - )
Harvester of eyes, that's me
And I see all there is to see
When I look inside your head
Right up front to the back of your skull
Well that's my sign that you are dead
My list for you checks off as null
I'm the harvester of eyes
I'm the eyeman of TV
With my ocular TB
I need all the peepers I can find
Inside the barn where you find the hay
Just last week I took a ride
So high on eyes I almost lost my way
I'm the harvester of eyes
Harvester of eyes, that's me harvester of eyes
And I see all there is to see harvester of eyes
When I look inside your head harvester of eyes
Right up front to the back of your skull harvester of eyes
Harvester of eyes
My-my-my-my-my
My-my-my-my-my
My-my-my-my-my-my
I'm the harvester of eyes
I'm just walkin' down the street
I see a garbage can, I pick it up
I look through all the garbage
To see if there are any eyes inside
I'll put 'em in my pink leather bag
And take all their eye balls
And I bleed with 'em
As I plead with their eyes all night
So if you see me walkin' down the street
You'd better get out of the way
And put on your eye glasses
'Cause I'm gonna take your eyes home with me
FLAMING TELEPATHS
( - A. Bouchard - E. Bloom - S. Pearlman - D. Roeser - )
Well I've opened up my veins too many times
And the poison's in my heart and in my mind
Poison's in my bloodstream
Poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion
I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what to do
Is it any wonder that my joke's an iron
And the joke's on you
Experiments that failed too many times
Transformations that were too hard to find
Poison's in my bloodstream
Poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion
I'll settle for lies
Yes I know the secrets of the iron and mind
They're trinity acts, a mineral fire
Yes I know the secrets of the circuitry mind
It's a flaming wonder telepath
Well I've opened up my veins too many times
And the poison's in my heart and in my mind
Poison's in my bloodstream
Poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion
I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what to do
Is it any wonder that my joke's an iron
And the joke's on you
ASTRONOMY
( - J. Bouchard - A. Bouchard - S. Pearlman - )
Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
And now the sand's become a crust
Most of you have gone away
Come Susie dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you'll want to know where winds come from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Four winds at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door to let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Yes the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never
Never warms
Never warms
Never warms
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Susie dear
Would find themselves at Four Winds Bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent
Astronomy...a star
Blue Oyster Cult - Revolution by Night (1983)
Produced by Bruce Fairbairn
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TAKE ME AWAY
( - E. Bloom - A. Nova - )
Strange shapes light up the night
Never seen them though I hope I might
Don't ask if they are real
The men in black, their lips are sealed
Fantasy it fills my mind
To leave this place before my time
Release myself from earthly care
My dream may be your nightmare
I turn my hopes up to the sky
I'd like to know before I die
Memories will slowly fade
I lift my eyes and say
Come on, take me away
Come on, take me away
Come here, girl, close to me
A thousand stars your eye can see
First star we see tonight
I wish I may I wish I might
I turn my hopes up to the sky
I'd like to know before I die
Memories will slowly fade
I lift my eyes and say
Come on, take me away
Come on, take me away
I turn my hopes up to the sky
I'd like to know before I die
Memories will slowly fade
I lift my eyes and say
Come on, take me away
EYES ON FIRE
( - G. Winter - )
At the stroke of midnight
Staring at the phone
For the millionth time I'm all alone
I'm the guy she turns to
When her lovers leave
I'm the wildcard
She's got up her sleeve
But she don't look at me
With eyes on fire
Glowing like coals in the night
Hungry eyes
Burning with love and desire
I'm like a long-lost brother
I'm closer than her friends
The only one on whom she can depend
She thinks I'm sweet and gentle
She thinks the world of me
But late at night I'm not the one she needs
She never looks at me
With eyes on fire
Glowing like coals in the night
Hungry eyes
Burning with love and desire
Don't she, don't you see
I'm crying out loud
Can't she tell I need her now
She never looks at me with
Eyes on fire
Glowing like coals in the night
Hungry eyes
Burning with love and desire
She never looks at me with
Eyes on fire
Glowing like coals in the night
Hungry eyes
Reaching for me in the night
SHOOTING SHARK
( - D. Roeser - P. Smith - )
Well I bumped inside the magic man
And he laid some tricks on me
He said, "You do need help my friend"
I whispered, "Obviously"
He laid a spread of Jacks and Queens
And he bade me take my pick
But every face it had your face
I cried out, "I am sick"
Sick of hauling your love around
Want to run the train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart
And weighs me like a stone
Oh, it's a hard load to love you
It takes up all my time, having you
So familiar
Like last life's
Nursery rhyme
So I gave away the pictures
And your golden ring
And the phone calls you sent me
And the silver birds that sing
Then the man he told me something
That really brought me down
Your things were thrown away, it's true
But you were still in town
Sick of hauling your love around
Wanna run the train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart
And weighs me like a stone
Oh, it's a hard load to love you
It takes up all my time, having you
So familiar
Like last life's
Nursery rhyme
The magician let a message
It flashes when I hide
Accept the chains of loving
Accept or else remove yourself from her side
And do without her love
And I lay back with a steel chain
I keep it by my side
I could mail a letter to you but I still
Have my pride
Sick of hauling your love around
Wanna run the train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart
And weighs me like a stone
Three times I've sent you back from me
Three times my bones gone dry
And three times I've seen the shooting shark
Lighting up the sky
Oh, it's a hard load to love you, babe
It takes my breath away
The fourth time round
Is the last time round
There's nothing else to say
VEINS
( - D. Roeser - R. Meltzer - )
I open my eyes
From a dreamless night
With a sense of dread
You could cut with a knife
So I'm thinking that
Maybe I killed somebody
You never know - you never know when
You might have killed somebody
Veins in my eyeballs
Damage that I've done
Veins on the stairway
Veins in my skull
I visit my friend
We have a fight
I'm drinking his whiskey
I'm wanting his wife
Then the image goes black
Did I kill somebody?
'Cause there ain't no clue, there's no clue
That I killed somebody
Veins in my eardrum
Banging at my door
Veins in my brainwaves
Veins on the floor
I get the shivers
And I've got the shakes
People screaming my name
Like there's no mistake
Can't believe it's true
Did I kill somebody?
But I just don't know, I don't know
Did I kill somebody?
Veins on the sidewalk
Veins know the score
Veins in my mind, oh
Veins evermore
SHADOW OF CALIFORNIA
( - J. Bouchard - N. Smith - S. Pearlman - )
Beneath the freeway at the cloverleaf junction
A symbol of good luck eminates darkness
The shadow will grow to cover California
Somewhere on the road from San Bernadino
Its future is steering the past ... will not pass
Speed is the game in the shadow of kings
Where the company of angels fly
They appear at the crossroads at once in the future
Clad in the darkness on the highways of night
With no love ... from the past
Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must pour the brains
In the shadow of California
Revolution by night grant me this future
Kings of the shadow on the highways of night
From San Bernadino these angels are racing
This night to your city
The host of angels ... Los Angeles
Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must pour the brains
In the shadow of California
FEEL THE THUNDER
( - E. Bloom - )
Slicing throught the night
Three riders came
Perched on American steel
Riders with no name
Even time cannot reveal
Riders with no name
On October 31st many years ago
Three friends went out for a ride
For it was a famous party night
And to party was to get high
They loaded up on beer and cocaine
Then they started their bikes with a roar
They couldn't have known that on that night
They were beginning their longest tour
Feel the thunder
Of the midnight ride
Earth torn asunder
By those who died
Onto their favorite road they rode
Leather horsemen riding three wide
Their metal beasts howled in the night
A dark spectre was their guide
They came around a curve too fast
Only time for a scream
A fiery crash of chrome and steel
Was the beginning of their longest dream
Feel the thunder
Of the midnight ride
Earth torn asunder
By those who died
Feel the thunder
Of the midnight ride
Earth torn asunder
By those who died
And the fates decreed on that night
Their souls must be tried
Now you can hear them every All Hallows Eve
Forever doomed to ride
Slicing throught the night
Three riders came
Perched on American steel
Riders with no name
Even time cannot reveal
Riders with no name
Feel the thunder
Of the midnight ride
Earth torn asunder
By those who died
LET GO
( - E. Bloom - D. Roeser - I. Hunter - )
Hell-bent for leather on a moonlit night
There's a hot wind blowin'
Better hold on tight to your soul
Blue fire rising up from the deep
Burning the world when it's tryin' to sleep
So let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
C'mon let yourself go
BOC
You can be whatever you want to be
You've got the power
We've got the key
Yeah, BOC
You're a rebel and you got no friends
We all know that it all depends on rock and roll
Do you feel like they're keeping you down
Ain't no fun with your feet on the ground
So let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Yeah let yourself go
BOC
You can be whatever you want to be
You've got the power
We've got the key
BOC
Gimme guitar, Buck Dharma
DRAGON LADY
( - D. Roeser - Broadway Blotto -
Out of the smoke at the dawn of man
Out of the ocean across the sand
Reaching forth with her ancient hand
Dragon Lady
Out of the flames of a man's desire
A hair-raising voice from an evil choir
Reigning down like a freezing fire
Dragon Lady
She appears mysteriously
You don't take her seriously
Until you're under her spell
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
Try to run but before you start
Dragon Lady's got you by the heart
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
Dragon Lady's got you
She won't let go
Terrible lightning flashes across the sky
When the Dragon Lady shows you how to fly
Terrible lightning flashes across the sky
When the Dragon Lady shows you how to cry
Out of the cage in the center ring
Out of the crowd and straight to the king
Who's out of his mind with her mystical thing
Dragon Lady
Out of the dream and into the night
A final look makes you die of fright
No one there in the candle light
Dragon Lady
She appears outrageously
You take her courageously
Until you're under her spell
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
Try to run but before you start
Dragon Lady's got you by the heart
Dragon Lady takes you by the heart
The Dragon Lady's got you
And she won't let go
Terrible lightning flashes across the sky
When the Dragon Lady shows you how to fly
Terrible lightning flashes across the sky
And the Dragon Lady's laughing as you die
LIGHT YEARS OF LOVE
( - J. Bouchard - H. Wheels - )
When we met it was a white hot star
The speed of light between two hearts
It felt like love, it sounds bizarre
But in your eyes I could see so far
Baby, baby shouldn't know no fear
Was it an angel who brought us here
Old, old souls but the love goes on
Changing life into a song
Into light years, light years of love
Light years, light years of love
Of love
Of love
Our love is like the shining sea
In salty foam we can feel so free
Caress the night with our cool skin
In your arms I can be everything
We got light years, light years of love
Light years, light years of love
Of love
Of love
Blue Oyster Cult - Mirrors (1979)
Produced by Tom Werman
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DR. MUSIC
( - R. Meltzer - J. Bouchard - D. Roeser - )
Dance on fire with me babe
The flames ain't gonna stop
Come on and show me
That you're ready to trot
So if you really wanna do it
You better do it hot
Ah my babe
You tell me that you're scared
But your fear
Is just driving me mad
Well, you can call me Dr. Music
Music is my game
Well, you can call me Dr. Music
Music is my name
Girl don't stop that screamin'
You're sounding so sincere
So much beauty
In the tracks of your tears
So if you wanna face the music
Open up your ears
Meet my friend
Calamity Jane
Hear the rhythm
In the sound of her pain
Well, you can call me Dr. Music
Music is my game
Well, you can call me Dr. Music
Music is my name
THE GREAT SUN JESTER
( - M. Moorcock - J. Trivers - E. Bloom - )
They have killed the great sun jester
Who danced between the stars
They have stripped him of his manhood
Signs of Venus and of Mars
The cynics left him weeping
And the jackals left him torn
And the jester reaches out bind hands
He can touch the stars no more.
CHORUS:
And he took the stars in his hands
And as he scattered them he'd shout
"I'm the joker of the universe
I'm what it's all about."
Now he's dying in his grief
And the hard men dragged him down
They have killed the wild-eyed jester
They have killed the fireclown
Now his blind eyes seek the starlight
And his fingers seek controls
To take him into space again
Where he was both young and old
The dancers stiff with pain
And they've made him kneel too long
And the madness they have driven out
They've left him cold and sane.
CHORUS
He'll never - sing his songs - again....
He'll never dance between the stars - again....
He'll never laught - again....
No he'll never ever laugh again....
Oh, no....
IN THEE
( - A. Lanier - )
Maybe I'll see you again baby
And maybe I won't
Maybe you've bought your ticket
Gone back to Detroit
Airplanes make strangers of us all
Give us distance
Much too easily.
Jim says some destinies
Should not be delivered
But you and I seen now baby
That still they are
Winning it makes losers of us all
'Cause the dice roll
So indifferently.
CHORUS:
Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel
I'll wrap myself in dreams
I'll wrap myself in solitude
("stranger's arms" FOR 3RD CHORUS)
But I wish I could wrap myself
In thee.
Tonight it's hot, without you
Tomorrow'll be cold
Winter will come along
Driven by snow
Love it makes strangers of us all
When we part
Oh so thoughtlessly
CHORUS
Once we breathed the breath
Of sweet surrender
Pure, pure Arab air filled our
Atmosphere
But pride it makes stars of us all
Until we fall
For everyone to see.
CHORUS
CHORUS
MIRRORS
( - D. Roeser - B. Abbott - )
A mirror is a negative space
With a frame and a place for your face
It reveals what the rest of us see
It conceals what you'd like it to be
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls have a love afair
With their eyes and their shining hair
Fantasize that the world adores
Tantalize like a cover girl
Mirrors are the basis of beauty
Give rise to self love or self pity
The prize if a woman is pretty
She tries like a superstar Hollywood girl
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Pretty girls can't look away
Vanity's a deadly sin
It's what the flesh is packaged in
Vanity's a deadly sin
It's what the flesh is packaged in
A mirror is a negative space
With a frame and a place for your face
It reveals what the rest of us see
It conceals what you'd like it to be
Vanity's a deadly sin
It's what the flesh is packaged in
MOON CRAZY
( - J. Bouchard - )
Did you catch the fever
Flying toward the moon?
Sailing in space to a distant shore
You kind of wondered
What they came here for
We lived days for lovin'
Falling for all we met
A world gone crazy from the lunacy
The tides kept rising and falling
Like you and me
Moon crazy
Summer of changes
Let the night shine on (and on) and on
Shine on until the feeling is gone
Dreaming about, what could it be
Summer's embraces
Had a hold on me
On the hill they danced 'til dawn
While the video flickered along
But in your heart was an empty need
You just didn't know
Where the dream would lead
Moon crazy
Summer of changes
Let the night shine on (and on) and on
Shine on, shine on
Moon crazy
Summer of changes
Let the night shine on (and on) and on
Shine on until the feeling is gone
Dreaming about, what could it be
Summer's embraces
Had a hold on me
Moon crazy
Summer of madness
Let the night shine on (and on) and on
Shine on until the feeling is gone
Dreaming about, what could it be
Summer's embraces
Had a hold on me
THE VIGIL
( - D. Roeser - S. Roeser - )
In a purple vision
Many thousand years ago
I saw the silent stranger
Walk the earth alone
Twenty-seven faces
With their eyes turned to the sky
I've got a camera
And an airtight alibi
I know they're out there
We see them coming
Faster than the speed of light
They greet us in the dead of the night
Somewhere, someday, someone
They'll be light and sound
They'll alight on the ground
On which we stand
Somewhere, someday, someone
Will help us to survive
They're gonna show us hell
And bring us back alive
Well, I'm no poet, but I can't be fooled
The lies don't count, the whispers do
I hear the whispers on the wind
They say the earth has fallen due
We run in circles
Our days are numbered
Every night I look away
To the heavens and I pray
Come to us
Come to us
Our lights are dim
Our roads are crumbling
And we don't know what to do
We're sick and tired
And dying to meet you
'Cause we bit off more than
We can chew
I AM THE STORM
( - J. Bouchard - R. Binder - )
You scorned the love that I gave you
You lied now nothing can save you
Blue skies are turning to grey
I know the games that you play
Winds of rage they start to build
Too much madness will lay you under
The cards you draw don't help at all
Hear the sound of approaching thunder
When you see the clouds blacken
Remember you've been warned
No shelter from my fierce winds
Because, I am the storm
You'll hear my echoes of anger
You'll fear the roar of my thunder
Nightmares, confusion will come true
Aces and eights are the fate that you drew
Lightning bolts become my swords
When I pull them from the sky
Run my gauntlet of slashing rain
You won't survive to testify
When you see the clouds blacken
Remember you've been warned
No shelter from my fierce winds
Because, I am the storm
YOU'RE NOT THE ONE (I WAS LOOKING FOR)
( - A. Bouchard - C. Bouchard - )
I used to lie in my bed
Sleep wouldn't come
Thinkin' 'bout things that they said
They led me on
All of the fancy ladies
Oh they could talk and talk
I shot for the highest star
But I aimed too high
You wanted a rich rock star
But he made you cry
Now that we have each other
We can laugh about it
CHORUS:
You're not the one I was lookin' for but
You're the one for me (you're the one)
I'm not the one you were lookin' for but
You can't go wrong with me
You're not the one I was lookin' for but
You're oh so good for me
Now I can't make it without
I can't go on
We can make beautiful music
And prove them wrong
We've been put down by the best
And now we laugh about it, ya
(CHORUS)
You're oh so good for me (You're so good) (3X'S)
LONELY TEARDROPS
( - A. Lanier - )
Lonely teardrops, you been crying
I hear them fall
In the night the empty night
I hear your song
It goes right through me
It used to move me
(Lonely, lonely)
Lonely Paris, met a dancer
We did the stroll
Through the night the empty night
Four years ago
I thought you know me
She gave it to me
(Lonely, lonely)
CHORUS:
I seem to see a rose
I reach out then it goes
Now in its thorns I roam
The sky is grey and I am cold
Lord I tell you, Lord I tell you
All I want to do is get back home
Lonely teardrops, we did shoot them
They came on strong
Vials of rain to kill the pain
So far from home
I thought you knew me
You did it to me
(Lonely, lonely)
Lonely teardrops, I've been cryin'
All week long
Love is willing but the bed is cold
Goodbye, Laurence
I thought I knew you
What good did that do
(Lonely, lonely)
CHORUS:
I seem to see a rose
I reach out then it goes
Now in its thorns I roam
You never know until you know
Lord I ask you, Lord I beg you
All I want to do is get back home
Lonely teardrops (REPEAT)
Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos (1988)
Produced by Sandy Pearlman, in association with Albert Bouchard
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I AM THE ONE YOU WARNED ME OF
( - S. Pearlman - D. Roeser - A. Bouchard - )
Fresh from zones of moisture
And afterwards the meat
With spangles on my long-tailed suits
And songs to haunt the one that's saved
Just call me Desdinova
I'm sure to be
The lucky one
When destiny assigns wisdom
Known to me
The starry wisdom
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
The writing in the notebook
Notation from the stars
Songs by Desdinova
And frost warnings from the women's farm
Whose agents could not ever see
His hilly eyes and too green rings
Obscured sight and fancy dreams
Holy mass, those 13 fancy dreams
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
Eyes like bottles and hands in my hair
Bottles of blackness the blacker the spare
I'll sit myself behind that clock
And play tunes on its belfry
Five fingers have I to play them like ten
Ten fingers have I to play them again
In decimal chains whose mimic cry
Whose notes will never, never fly
Until they quit those timely tunes
And entered that system from outside
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
LES INVISIBLES
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
Along the world axis
The Empress lay sleeping
To the rhyme of the, of the, of the star clock
Seven sleepers
Seven sages
Seven ladders to the, to the
Seventh heaven
Seven stars
Had Ursa Major
Tables turning, turning
And rain maker
While the seven
The visitors
All went, all went
A drumming
Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy
Salute the Four Quarters
Before I leave your eyes
Twinned in the mirror
Les Mesteres come
End me adoration
Before I leave your eyes
World in the mirror
Waters of amnesia come
Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
The court of Eve
Beneath the Polar Mountain
Rose cross and crosser there
Symbols of the swan
Aerial races
In rotation over
The magical casement
Visions of a parallel world
Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy
IN THE PRESENCE OF ANOTHER WORLD
( - S. Pearlman - J. Bouchard - )
In the presence of another world
You guess the things unguessed
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
In the promise of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
Your master he's a monster
He will come on a bridge of paper
Inscribed with a hundred names of God
But he can count one more
The curse of life eternal
Written on the door
Your master.....he's a monster
Your master.....he's a monster
Your master.....he's a monster
In the presence of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
Your master.....Your master is a monster
Your master.....Born of a yolkless egg
Your master.....He has dominion over animals
Your master.....He walks the world Entrail diviner
Your master.....And when the stars are right
Your master.....He locks the door behind the door behind the door
Your master.....The milky way abyss inclines
Your master.....The seven years of labor for the instruments of time
Your master.....The seven years of labor for the instruments of time
Your master.....The seven years of labor for the instruments of time
Your master.....The seven years of labor for the instruments of time
Your master is a monster
And gentlemanly too
He'll make for us some new germ
With pieces of the perfect black
The alpha and omega
The double peaks of Mars
The maze of his infinity
The buried city
In the stars
DEL RIO'S SONG
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you'd know enough
To call in touch that outer frame
The inner gain, a sullen gulch
Which opens up on the way to Blindman's Bluff
A suburb now of River Roads
Where quandry and sublime improve
The sight whose imagery
Is sometimes that of fear
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you'd know enough
To shut the gates of walled town walls
And putting up some good rum punch
Forget the way to Blindman's Bluff
So packed with eyes
That glow like coals
And pointing towards the North
Oh my boat left New Orleans in 1829!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
My destination is a secret
And the doctrine is soft
And just between the verse and me
It's a place where you can see
Lost, last and luminous
Scored to sky yet never found
Relics of jewels
And ant-track tools
A true ghost dance
Rehearsal Ground
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song..........Oh, Del Rio
THE SIEGE AND INVESTITURE OF
BARON VON FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE AT WEISSERIA
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
On the terminal point
Of the cul-de-sac
Patients are dying
The horses are dazed
From the glare of stars
The starry wisdom
Owned by the Baron
And he's got the cure
A drug by the name of World Without End
A drug by the name of World Without End
A drug by the name of World Without End
Come and take this.................Carpe Diem!
World without end..................Carpe Diem!
You'll be inventor.................Carpe Diem!
Invention, letter, earth, wind.....Carpe Diem!
Rhymed like the real...............Carpe Diem!
And real as the rhyme..............Carpe Diem!
Imagine this Baron.................Carpe Diem!
Inventor of rhymes.................Carpe Diem!
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Carpe Diem!
Carpe Diem!
Carpe Diem!
Carpe Diem!
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
Frankenstein
(World without end)
Frankenstein
(World without end)
Frankenstein
(World without end) ...
ASTRONOMY
( - S. Pearlman - J. Bouchard - A. Bouchard - )
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
Reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away
Come Susie dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you'll want to know where wind comes from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Four doors at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door's let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Or the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never, never, never, never, never warms
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie Nurse and Susie dear
Find themselves at Four Winds Bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent
MAGNA OF ILLUSION
( - S. Pearlman - D. Roeser - A. Bouchard - )
Cornwall and the harbor
Where witches went mad more than once and
Until this day
In dreams at least
The lighthouse at Lost Christabel
Squat and hugely tilts
Upon the strand where Grandad's house was built
And having stood the test of time
The starry gale the bloody tide
Grandad's house though gaped with hooks
And filled with books
Could stand no more until
A certain prophecy
Once read - now stood
Before the world fulfilled
Now of these books in Grandad's keep
Some of them were new but mostly they were old
And the oldest was a scroll
A prophecy that read
When the riddle begins
The story will end
August the First 1892
And in the guise of destiny
Grandad quit Cornwall
"I'm a captain of a ship
My ship is charmed, and called Plutonia."
Stories on land, storms at sea
'Tween 1892 and '93
When Grandad sailed for Mexico
Ships charmed and ordinary
Sailed the glidepath to the sun
And when the sun proved false
As it always does
Some of them would be lost
And some would sail back home
It was no star
But a magna of illusion
I mean by that
The mirror found
In the chamber of jade grown like a seed
Deep within the ground
The mirror found
By one man
So on and off again
He sailed the Europe's rim
On and off, off and on
Until his time had come
Through tears and smiles
The last domain
The rods of broken crystal
On and off, and off again
Until his time had come
Late to the story that had been
But early to the riddle not yet begun
August the First 1893
The charmed ship Plutonia
Sailed like a ray into Cornwall
And none too soon it seems
That night the Captain's granddaughter
Would celebrate her birthday
"I've come a long way," said the Captain
"From Lost Christabel this night
Accompanied by my dog familiar
To blast your rafters with my surprise!
Granddaughter, it's a foreign mirror
Taken from the jungle by crime!"
Stories on land, storms at sea
'Tween 1892 and '93
When Grandad sailed for Mexico
When tables collapse
And floors have filled
And the party's over, it's all over
Sea-dogs and rockers will dwell on doom
I've warped the stuff of ground
What seems to be is not
Behind closed eyes
Realize your sight
Mine, granddaughter, proves a surprise
More light than sun
More dark than night then
More a snare than lust
BLUE OYSTER CULT
( - S. Pearlman - E. Bloom - )
I am becalmed in virtue
Lost to nothing on a bay of dreams
Warm weather and a holocaust
The tears of God flow as I bleed
Left to die by two good friends
Abandoned me and put to sleep
On a shore where oyster beds
Seem plush as down
And ripe enough for the luxor dream
Recall the dream of luxor
How fluids will arrive
As if by call or schedule
Resume through the morning tide
Where entry is by seaweed gate
And plan the plan of dreams
To lose oneself in reverb
In all that is and all that seems
So ladies, fish, and gentlemen
Here's my angled dream
To see me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The oyster boys are swimming now
To claim me back from the dead
The creatures back from vertigo
They fear to fall but haven't fell
Will reclaim tries and try again
The oyster boys are swimming now
Hear them chatter on the tide
Of the lost and language lost
Hear them chatter on the tide
We understand, we understand, we understand
And so do I
We understand, we understand
But fright is real
And so am I
So ladies, fish, and gentlemen
Here's my angled dream
To see me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The entry to lost vestibule
Opens on the bay
An instant shape of mercury
Lost and then retained
An instant is an eyelash
Caught on the tide
Imaginos!
Below this bay
And then besides...
The oyster boys are swimming now
One deal is what we made
Forest keys and whirlwind cold
Green keys too and keys of gold
Even locks that won't explode
When the skies become a scroll
Having lost its interest
See that's the deal we made
Just to join the Oyster Cult
The Blue Oyster Cult
We Understand, we understand - Blue Oyster Cult
IMAGINOS
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
Imaginos
Approached the sun
In August in New Hapshire
Singing songs
Nobody knew
And stories left undone
See this fish
His scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun
A tongue and pale
Of Texas light
Descended on the border
While the bird
Called Buzzardo
Rattled the bones
He picked the flesh from
See this fish
His scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun
Checking the sign of the Moonfleet
Roll your wheel with mine
Sometimes in the light of day
The truth proves hard to find
Actually this Buzzardo
Was Imaginos in disguise
In disguise
Ooo Imaginos
Ooo Imaginos
Ooo Ooo Ooo Imaginos
Ooo Imaginos
Ooo Imaginos
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Imaginos
Approached the sun
In August in New Hapshire
Singing songs
Nobody knew
And stories left undone
See this fish
His scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun...............such a sun
such a sun
I'm Buzzardo in Texas............Last chance
I'm a pinwheel in Vermont........Last chance
And gorge the Bungo Pony.........Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
I'm a rocker a roller and a spinner, too
Below that scene of subterfuge...Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
Which is
The last chance border...........Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
.................................Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
On the border....................Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
.................................Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
On the border....................Last chance Laaast chance Last chance
.................................Last chance Last chance
The last exit to Texas
Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos (1988)
Produced by Sandy Pearlman, in association with Albert Bouchard
Incomplete lyrics: Version 12 5-OCT-91
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I AM THE ONE YOU WARNED ME OF
( - S. Pearlman - D. Roeser - A. Bouchard - )
Fresh from zones of moisture
And afterwards the meat
With spangles on my long-tailed suits
And songs to haunt the one that sings
Just call me Desdinova
I'm sure to be the lucky one
When destiny assigns wisdom
Known to me, this starry wisdom
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who never, never lied
The writing in the notebook
Notation from the stars
Songs by Desdinova
And false warnings from the womens ?barns? :-)
Whose sages could not ever see
His eerie eyes and two green rings?
Obscure sight and fancy dreams
Holy mass - those 13 fancy trails
{I am etc.}
Eyes like bottles
And hands in my hair
Bottles of blackness
The blackest despair
I'll sing myself beyond that clock
In me two tones will meet
Five fingers have I
To play them like ten
Ten fingers have I
To play them again
In deperate times, a man oppressed
{In ?? chains a mirror craved}
Who's words will never, never fly
Until they quit those tumbling tunes
And enter that system from outside
{I am etc.}
LES INVISIBLES
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
Along the world axis
The Empress lay sleeping
To the rhyme of the, of the
Of the star clock
Seven sleepers
Seven sages
Seven eyes to the
To the seventh heaven
Seven stars
Had Ursa Major
Tables turning, turning
And rain maker
Wild seven
It is a test
All went
All went a-drumming
Dance the Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Gaze at the depths
Night changes now
Something deeper
That made it happen then
A -------------
Before I leave your eyes
Twin in the mirror
They stay at dawn
Lend me adoration
Before I leave your eyes
World in the mirror
Waters of amnesia drown
Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
There's gonna be /the border thieves?/
Beneath the border mountain
Rose crossed cross her there
Symbols of the Swan
Aerial races
In rotation over
The magical casement
Visions of a parallel world
Dance the Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Gaze at the depths
Night changes now
Something deeper
That made it happen then
IN THE PRESENCE OF ANOTHER WORLD
( - S. Pearlman - J. Bouchard - )
In the presence of another world
You guess the things unguessed
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
In the promise of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
Your master - he's a monster
He will come on a bridge of Heaven
Inscribed with a hundred names of God
But he can count one more
The curse of life eternal
Written on a door
Your master - he's a monster
Your master - he's a monster
Your master - he is a monster
In the presence of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
Your master...
Your master is a monster
Your master...
He has dominion over the animals
Your master...
He wants the world
Entrail diviner!
Your master...
And when the stars are right
Your master...
He unlocks the door
Your master...
Behind the door
The Milky Way abyss, and climbs
Your master...
Seven years of labor
For the instruments of time
Your master...
Your master is a monster
Your master is a monster
Your master...
He unlocks the power of the beast
Of the Dragon!
Of the alpha and omega
And all the peaks of Mars
The gold city and the stars
And the stars, and the stars...
DEL RIO'S SONG
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
I've lived upon the edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song
Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song
Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song
Oh, Del Rio
Del Rio's Song
Oh, Del Rio
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you know enough
To come and touch that outer fray:
The inner game of Sullen Gulch
Which opens up on the way to Blind Man's Bluff
I've suffered now of river roads,
With quandry and sublime improve,
The sight whose imagery is sometimes that of fear
Chorus
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you know enough
To shut the gates of wartime walls
And putting up some good rum punch
Forget the way to Blind Man's Bluff
So packed with eyes that glow like coals
And pointing towards the North
Our boat left New Orleans
In 1829
Our destination is a secret
Darkened (?)
But just between the birds and me
It's a place where you can see
Lost lands
Luminous, gorgeous skies
Never found
Relics and jewels, and entrapped tombs
[The true ghost dance?]
[With her soul?]
Repeat chorus, ad infinitum
THE SIEGE AND INVESTITURE OF
BARON VON FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE AT WEISSERIA
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
On the terminal point of the cul-de-sac
Patients are dying, the horses are dazed
From the glare of stars, starry wisdom
Owned by the Baron, and he's got the cure
A drug by the name of World Without End
Come and take this World Without End
?Cue the adventure if it's ready and willing?
?Ride like the real and real as the rhyme?
Imagine this Baron and picture him right
Imagine he was me and I was called
Frankenstein
Carpe diem! [editor's note:
Carpe diem! "Seize the day!"
Carpe Diem! (Latin)]
He was me, and I was called
Frankenstein
He was me, and I was called
Frankenstein
(World without end)
Frankenstein
Frankenstein!
ASTRONOMY
( - S. Pearlman - J. Bouchard - A. Bouchard - )
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away
Come Susy dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where winds come from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Four doors at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door's left to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey, hey, hey, hey
In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never, never warms (repeat twice)
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Suzy dear
Would find themselves at Four Winds Bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Call me Desdinova, the eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog, fixed and consequent
Astronomy...a star (repeat)
A star!
MAGNA OF ILLUSION
( - S. Pearlman - D. Roeser - A. Bouchard - )
Cornwall, and the harbor
Where witches went mad more than once
And until this day, in dreams at least
The lighthouse at Los Cristobel squatted in the dunes
Upon the strand where Grandad's house was built
And having stood the test of time
The starry gale, the bloody tide
Grandad's house all draped with hooks
And filled with books
Which said no more until
A certain prophesy
Once read, now stood
Before the world fulfilled
Now of these books
In Grandad's keep
Some of them were new
But mostly they were old
And the oldest was a scroll
A prophesy that read
"When the riddle begins
The story will end"
August the first, 1892, in the guise of Destiny
Grandad left Cornwall, "I'm the captain of a ship.
My ship is charmed, and called Plutonia."
Storms on land, storms at sea
'Tween 1892 and '93
When Grandad sailed from Mexico
Ships charmed and ordinary sail the blind path to the sun
And when the sun drew false (as it always does)
Some of them would be lost
And some would sail back home
It was no star, but a Magna of Illusion
I mean by that a mirror found in the Chamber of Jade
Grown like a seed deep within the ground
The mirror found by one man
So on and off again, he sailed to Europe's rim
Alone, off, on, until his time had come
Through tears and smiles, the last domain
Through rods of broken crystal
On and off, and off again
Until his time had come
Late with the story that had been
But early enough to have yet begun
August the 1st 1893, the charmed ship Plutonia
Sailed like a ray into Cornwall, and none too soon it seems
That night the Captain's Granddaughter
Would celebrate her birthday
I have come a long way, (said the Captain)
From Los Cristobel this night
Accompanied by my dog, Familiar
To blast your rafters with my surprise!
Granddaughter, it's a foreign mirror
Taken from the jungles by crime!
Storms on land, storms at sea
'Tween 1892 and '93
When Grandad sailed from Mexico
When the table's collapsed, and drawers are filled
And the party's over, it's all over
Sea dogs in rockers will dwell on the dunes
I've walked the stuff of brown
What seems to be is not
Behind closed eyes, realize your sight
Mine granddaughter proves a surprize
More light than sun
More dark than night
And more assailed than loved...
BLUE OYSTER CULT
( - S. Pearlman - E. Bloom - )
I am becalmed in virtue
Lost to nothing on a bay of dreams
Warm weather and a holocaust
The tears of god flow as I bleed
Left to die by two good friends
Abondoned me and put to sleep
On a shore where oyster beds seem plush as down
And ripe enough for the Luxor dream
Recall the dream of Luxor
Our fluids will arrive
As if I call those schedules
Resuming to the morning tide
Where entry is by seaweed gate
I planned a plan of dreams
To lose myself in rebirth
No bodies at all it seems
So ladies, fish, and gentlemen
He's my angled dream
To see me in my blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The Oyster Boys are swimming now
To claim me back from the dead
The creatures that from vertigo
They fear to fall but haven't fell
Will reclaim tries and try again
The Oyster Boys are swimming now
Hear them chatter on the tide
Of the lost, in a language lost
Hear them chatter on the tide
We understand, we understand, we understand
And so do I
We understand, we understand
But flight is real and so am I
So ladies, fish, and gentlemen
He's my angled dream
To see me in my blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The entry to my destiny opens on the bay
An instant shaped in mercury
Lost before the day
An instant as the eyelash out on the tide
Imaginos, below this bay
Besides...
The Oyster Boys are swimming now
One deal is what we made
The forest keys and whirlwind cold
Green keys too, and keys of gold
And even locks that won't explode
When the skies become a scroll
Having lost its interest
See, that's the deal we made
Just to join the Oyster Cult
The Blue Oyster Cult
IMAGINOS
( - S. Pearlman - A. Bouchard - )
Imaginos, approach the sun (Imaginos!)
In August in New Hapshire (Imaginos!)
Singing songs, nobody knew (Imaginos!)
And stories left undone (Imaginos!)
See this fish
It's gills turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun, (such a sun)
such a sun, (such a sun)
such a Sun! (such a sun) (such a sun)
Turning pale, in Texas light (Imaginos!)
Descending on the border (Imaginos!)
While the bird opens our door (Imaginos!)
Battles the bones to pick the flesh from.
Chorus
Take care of desire the moon, please /Wrong, wrong, wrong, I
know...:-)/
Roll your wheel with me (Roll, roll, wheel of fire?)
Sometimes in the night I play
The truth proves hard to find
As you leave us with our love
With Imaginos in disguise
In disguise...
Ooooh, Imaginos, Ooooh, Imaginos, Ooooh Imaginos
Ooooh, Imaginos, Ooooh, Imaginos, Ooooh
Imaginos, how gross the sun (etc.)
See, this fish, its gills turned green
...
such a Sun! (such a sun) (such a sun)
/ I know this is all wrong...but I don't think it was supposed
to be all that coherent anyways...:-) /
Last chance (last chance) (last chance) (last chance)
A desire in Texas
I'm a pinwheel, in the wind
gorge, unknown ponies :-)
Last chance (last chance) (last chance) (last chance)
I'm a rocker, a roller, and a spinner too
Roll like a whirling centrifuge
Which is the last chance? byyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeee
Last chance (last chance) (last chance) (last chance)
out on the rollerssss
Last chance (last chance) (last chance) (last chance)
Last exit to Texas
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus (1980)
Produced by Martin Birch
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BLACK BLADE
( - E. Bloom - M. Moorcock - J. Trivers - )
I have this feeling that my luck is none too good
This sword here at my side don't act the way it should
Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave
Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave
And it howls! It howls like hell!
I'm told it's my duty to fight against the law
That wizardry's my trade and I was born to wade through gore
I just want to be a lover, not a red-eyed screaming ghoul
I wish it'd picked another to be its killing tool
Black Blade, Black Blade
Forged a billion years ago
Black Blade, Black Blade
Killing so its power can grow
It's death from the beginning to the end of time
And I'm the cosmic champion and I hold a mystic sign
And the whole world's dying and the burden's mine
And the black sword keeps on killing 'til the end of time
Black Blade, Black Blade
Bringing chaos to the world we know
Black Blade, Black Blade
And it's using me to kill my friends
Black Blade, Black Blade
Getting stronger so the world will end
Black Blade, Black Blade
Forcing my mind to bend and bend
I am the Black Blade
Forged a million billion years ago
My cosmic soul it goes on for eternity
Carving out destiny
Bringing in the Lords of Chaos
Bringing up the Beasts of Hades
Sucking out the souls of heroes
Laying waste to knights and ladies
My master is my slave
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
You poor fucking humans
MONSTERS
( - A. Bouchard - K. Bouchard - )
Keep goin' getting higher
New worlds waiting in the sky
Escape the feasting and the hunger
Not the monsters in our minds
Got our hands on a ship
And stole away into the night
The four of us and Pasha dear
She to steer and we to fight
Fed up with rules and regulations
No more laughter left on Earth
Outer Space our one salvation
May God help us in our search
We fled so fast that we grew younger
Put the ship on cruise control
We all did our best with Pasha
But not as good as good ol' Joe
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....In the night
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....In black and white
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....Out of control
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....When you're alone
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....Feed on themselves
Monsters, monsters, monsters.....On the road to hell
Love never should have entered
It was never in the plan
We were finally going to have her
And let Joe be damned!
Joe awoke from a stupor
It was clear something was wrong
He rushed in and found us with her
And in his rage he aimed his gun
One shot and it was over
Pasha smiled and then was gone...
DIVINE WIND
( - D. Roeser - )
Blood of bat, tail of newt
Wing of metal, bone of steel
Vial of health, flask of pain
Staff of life or poison rain
If he really thinks we're the devil
Then let's send him to hell
Fast food, fast cars
Fast women, movie stars
Time of trouble, time of trial
Turn to Memphis, pray awhile
If he really thinks we're the devil
Then let's send him to hell
Anxious mothers, bums in the street
Jackals in waistcoats, men in sheets
Purple mountains, waves of grain
Grace of God, thy will be done
If he really thinks we're the devil
Then let's send him to hell
DEADLINE
( - D. Roeser - )
You said you'd be here at a quarter to five
I didn't know if you were dead or alive
How long you think that I can sharpen my knife
I've got better things to do with my life
It's almost the deadline
Don't miss the deadline, darling
When all your bad dreams will come true
Don't miss the deadline
It's almost the deadline, darling
I wouldn't want it to happen to you
Phil screamed at him, and he hung up the phone
I wonder if he ever felt more alone
He never finished his coffee that night
The photo they showed David was a terrible sight
He missed the deadline
He passed the deadline, darling
And I believe that somehow he knew
He crossed the deadline
He passed the deadline, darling
There wasn't a thing anybody could do
Listen my darling, now, don't play with fire
You find a way to balance faith and desire
It's almost the deadline
Don't miss the deadline darling
Consequences are easily misconstrued
Don't miss the deadline
It's almost the deadline, darling
I couldn't live if it happened to you
THE MARSHALL PLAN
( - Blue Oyster Cult - )
In a dark horse town, in the middle of the west
Where Friday takes so long to arrive
Johnny wakes up dreaming turns on the radio
The he jumps up plays his guitar in the mirror
Starts his day with a rock and roll pose
Tonight's the night that Susie and he
Are going to a rock and roll show
Tonight! I'm gonna see some rock and roll!
Yeah, my favorite group is playing!
Tonight! I'm gonna see some rock and roll!
Well it's showtime and he's caught up in the crowd
He hates the crush but he loves the music loud
He reaches out and Susie's disappeared,
Now Johnny's standing on a corner after the show
Looking for his Susie dear
But there goes his Susie - in the band's limousine!
Yeah, well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll shows
That's the way it goes - it's rock and roll
That's the way it goes - it's rock and roll
Now Susie's gone, and Johnny hears the thunder
As he rolls another number and he counts
He counts the times he's felt himself to be the hero
'Cause ever since he was a boy
He's heard about adventure
As he looks into the mirror now he knows
He must be the star and play guitar like thunder
Find Susie at his rock and roll show
Boy, if I only had a good guitar and a big amp
Boy, it wouldn't be somebody else taking my girl away...tell ya
I know what I should do...I'll put an ad in the paper
Get a few other guys who want to play as much as I do
Tell ya, I ain't playin' no surf music
I'm gonna play some heavy music
I'm gonna play bad
I'm gonna play loud
I know just what I want it to sound like
It's gonna sound like...
It's gonna sound like...
This is Don Kirshner
And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
A new phenomenon in the music world
With six million albums to his credit in just two short years
My good friend, here's Johnny!
Now Johnny became a legend in his time
Found it easier to live in pain
Half a hero in a hard-hearted game
Now it's showtime and he's caught up in the flow
He hates the rush but he needs the music so
Still he reaches out but Susie's disappeared
Well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll shows
It's rock and roll
That's the way it goes - It's rock and roll
HUNGRY BOYS
( - A. Bouchard - K. Bouchard - )
Sometimes it feels like you can't get enough
My buddies and me keep looking for the stuff
To make us feel the blood rushing through our veins
Just to keep on living is bound to be a strain
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry boys!
Friday night we take off heading for the city
To dance with the lady from the white snow country
And if she takes us home and we get a little love
That's something can't get enough of
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
We're hungry boys!
Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry boys!
Now look at Louie he's really got the need
Valerie's got the needle but she always makes him plead
Louie was the one who really brought the stuff to town
But the cops moved in and shot the operation down
That's why we're hungry boys!
That's why we're hungry boys!
That's why we're hungry boys!
That's why we're hungry boys!
Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry boys!
FALLEN ANGEL
( - J. Bouchard - H. Robbins - )
From the dust I rose on high
Thunder cloud in a two-lane sky
From the world I did rebel
A fallen angel
Highway lust was in my blood
No girl could ever take my love
Cold and cruel and then I fell
A fallen angel
A girl so strange I lost my head
Lost it all got left for dead
I curse the day now I'm just a shell
A fallen angel
Gonna rise up from hell
I'm the fallen angel
When the brink of ruin lies
Upon the world angels shall rise
To lead the fallen now remember world
A fallen angel
Gonna rise up from hell
Gonna rise up from hell
Gonna rise up from hell
I'm the fallen angel
LIPS IN THE HILLS
( - D. Roeser - E. Bloom - R. Meltzer - )
I am gripped by what I cannot tell
Have I slipped or have I merely fell
I feel gypped my senses telling lies
I've been stiffed by serpent's soundless cries
Up in the hills
An apparition
Filling me
With superstition
A fiery night the night that I saw,
The night that I saw
The night that I saw
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills in the hills
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills
In the hills
I'm so flipped snared by hidden claws
I've been t-tripped I'm crawling on all fours
I've been stripped the insulation's gone
Wish I'd slept to waking in the morn
Up in the sky
Beyond the chasm
My eyes behold
A rare phantasm
The Godless night, the night that I saw
The night that I saw
The night that I saw
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills in the hills
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills
In the hills
I am gripped by what I cannot tell
Have I slipped or have I merely fell
I feel gypped my senses telling lies
I've been stiffed by serpent's soundless cries
Up in the hills
An appariton
Filling me
With superstition
The Godless night
The night that I saw
The night that I saw
The night that I saw
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills in the hills
Lips Lips
Lips in the hills
In the hills
UNKNOWN TONGUE
( - A. Bouchard - D. Roter - )
There was no light shining through the window
As Margaret lie in bed
She was wearing cotton pajamas
A crucifix above her head
She awoke from a dream
Her eyes were open
Her lips were moving
In the dark
Speak to me in many voices
Make them all sound like one
Let me see your sacred mysteries
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
She put her hands upon her breasts
And they were small and hard and young
And everywhere she touched she felt a fire
Waiting for the answer that must surely come
Is this the way to love?
Or is this just the way to die?
Speak to me in many voices
Make them all sound like one
Let me see your sacred mysteries
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
Then she took her father's razor
And watched it cut into her palm
She put her hand up to her mouth
To taste the blood so holy and warm
She got up in the morning
Put on her dress, and patent leather shoes
Ate her cereal and kissed her mother
Caught the bus and went to school
Speak to me in many voices
Make them all sound like one
Let me see your sacred mysteries
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
Reveal to me the unknown tongue
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
THIS AIN'T THE SUMMER OF LOVE
---- ----- --- ------ -- ----
Feeling easy on the outside
But not so funny on the inside
Feel the sound, pray for rain
For this is the night we ride
This ain't the garden of eden
There ain't no angels above
And things ain't like what they used to be
And this ain't the summer of love
Lock all your doors from the outside
The key will dangle by the inside
You may begin to understand
That this is the night we ride
This ain't the garden of eden
There ain't no angels above
And things ain't like what they used to be
And this ain't the summer of love
On the night we ride...this ain't the summer of love.
This ain't the garden of eden
There ain't no angels above
And things ain't like what they used to be
And this ain't the summer of love
This ain't the summer, this ain't, this ain't
This ain't the summer of love
TRUE CONFESSIONS
---- -----------
True, true confessions, I lied
True, true confessions, I lied
Spent all night with candy's eyes
Dragged myself cross the warm blind side
Spent all night with candy's eyes
Dragged myself cross the warm blind side
True, true confession, she cried
True, true confession, she cried
Stand in the doorway in a jealous rage
Drag myself cross her wild terrain
Stand in the doorway in a jealous rage
Drag myself cross her wild terrain
True, true confessions, we tried
True, true confessions, we tried
Naked, exposed like fine rock-n-roll
Perfect as strangers, imperfect as love
Naked, exposed like fine rock-n-roll
Perfect as strangers, imperfect as love
We're never sorry, we're never sad
We're modern lovers, what fun we had
THE REAPER
--- ------
All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are
Come on baby...don't fear the reaper
Baby take my hand...don't fear the reaper
We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper
Baby I'm your man...
Valentine is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity...Romeo and Juliet
40,000 men and women everyday...Like Romeo and Juliet
40,000 men and women everyday...Redefine happiness
Another 40,000 coming everyday...We can be like they are
Come on baby...don't fear the reaper
Baby take my hand...don't fear the reaper
We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper
Baby I'm your man...
Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared...saying don't be afraid
Come on baby...and she had no fear
And she ran to him...then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodby...she had become like they are
She had taken his hand...she had become like they are
Come on baby...don't fear the reaper
E.T.I.
------
I hear the music, daylight disc
Three men in black said, "Don't report this"
"Ascension," and that's all they said
Sickness now, the hour's dread
All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news
I'm in fairy rings and tower beds
"Don't report this," three men said
Books by the blameless and by the dead
King in yellow, queen in red
All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news
Dead leaves always give up motion
I no longer feel the motion
Where prophecy fails, the falling motion
"Don't report this, agents of fortune"
All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news
REVENGE OF THE VERA GEMINI
------- -- --- ---- ------
You're boned like a saint
With the consciousness of a snake
You're the kind of girl
I'd like to find
Face like an angel
But you're boned like the devil
Your eyes have shifted from me
Everyone saw what you did
You have slipped from beneath me
Like a false and nervous squid
Oh no more horses horses
We're gonna swim like a fish
Into the hole, in which you planned to ditch me
My lovely Vera Marie
You planned to leave me cold
But you'll never get your wish
On the 24th of May
I'll gather up your reins
You filled me with a vengeance
And you touched me with your breath
I'm gonna pull you from this dance
You're gonna ride so easily
Oh no more horses horses
We're gonna swim like a fish
Into the hole, in which you planned to ditch me
My lovely Vera Marie
I was your victim
I was well deceived
Hell's built on regret
But I love your naked neck
And evil lies that you told me
Could make me believe your two-faced
Because two faces have you
And they're both gonna go
Oh no more horses horses
We're gonna swim like a fish
Into the hole, in which you planned to ditch me
My lovely Vera Gemini
SINFUL LOVE
------ ----
You're over my shoulder, I think I'm possessed
Your constant undertone, is making me toothless
Times come to trim you out of my life
Gonna cut you out, baby, out of my life
Dare-devil, she-devil, printer's-devil, evil
I love you like sin, but I won't be your pigeon
The power that I give you, I'm so sick of your voice
In my body, You don't give me no choice
But to boot you, honey, to give you the shove
So take back your despot, I'll keep you love
Dare-devil, she-devil, printer's-devil, evil
I love you like sin, but I won't be your pigeon
I'm searching by symbols, looking for a pistol
To laser you out, it looks like a keyhole
I'll just stick my key back, seamless and whole
No more idols, got my own self control
Dare-devil, she-devil, printer's-devil, evil
I love you like sin, but I won't be your pigeon
TATTOO VAMPIRE
------ -------
I went down last night with a tattoo madam
To a nude dagger fantasy domain
Wrapped in hell, I lost my breath
Chest to stimulating chinese breast
Grisly smiles, that don't flake off
Corny-colored demons leering
Vampire photos, sucking the skin
Seeding the night at the inker's parlor
Flash permabrand pricked for a dollar
Her wrist surreal a heart and flying skull
Lettered "Life and love pass swiftly"
Grisly smiles, that don't flake off
Corny-colored demons leering
Vampire photos, sucking the skin
MORNING FINAL
------- -----
He cast a grim shadow
Through the busy street
Said he was a junkie
And he punctuated his walk with a gun
Motiveless murder
The papers scream
The cops all said
The crowd was iced by the sight
Oh baby don't it make you feel so bad
Dark clouds are over the street
After what I read, I can hardly feel my heart...
My heart beat
Down the subway stairs
After him they leapt
An echo snap and scream of fire
The hot pursuit was done
For the last time he felt the light
And gave up his last fight
Oh baby don't it make you feel so bad
Dark clouds are over the street
After what I read, I can hardly feel my heart...
My heart beat
TENDERLOIN
----------
I come to you in a blue blue room
By some abuse and some heart
You raise the blinds say, "Let's have light on life,
Let's watch it fall apart. Let's watch it fall apart."
Night time flowers, evening roses
Bless this garden that never closes
Treat her gently, treat her kind
Tenderloin will last all night
I'm feeling hungry, have another line
So faith is taken up
You raise your eyes say, "That's just like life,
There's never quite enough. There's just never quite enough."
Night time flowers, evening roses
Bless this garden that never closes
Treat her gently, treat her kind
Tenderloin will last all night
I come to you in a blue blue room
By some abuse and some heart
You raise the blinds say, "Let's have light on life,
Let's watch it fall apart. Let's watch it fall apart."
DEBBIE DENISE
------ ------
She kept the light open, all night long
For me to come home, and sing her my song
Oh Debbie Denise was true to me
She'd wait by the window, so patiently
And I'd come on home with my hair hanging down
She'd pin it up, and softly smile
But I was out rolling with my band
And I was out rolling with my band
I never realized, she was so undone
I didn't suspect she had no life of her own
She was so true but she was a she
She was just there I would just come
Stumbling in she'd show me she'd care
I didn't care cause she was just there
But I was out rolling with my band
And I was out rolling with my band
I wouldn't come home for weeks at a time
She wouldn't accept that she was free
Oh Debbie Denise was true to me
She'd wait by the window so bitterly
Wanting me to come close, I guess I noticed
I couldn't see, so what could I say
That more affection could I show her
I had only one thing on my mind
When I come to her, she'd pin back my hair
And out past the fields out the window I'd stare
Where I was out rolling with my band
I was out rolling with my band
Blue Oyster Cult
Fire Of Unknown Origin (1981)
Produced by Martin Birch
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FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
( - J. Bouchard - P. Smith - E. Bloom - A Bouchard - D. Roeser - )
Death comes sweeping through the hallway
Like a lady's dress
Death comes driving down the highway
In its Sunday best
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
Swept her up and off my wavelength
Swallowed her up
Like the ocean in a fire
So thick and grey
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
Death comes driving
I can't do nothing
Death goes
There must be something
There must be something
That remains
There must be something
There must be something
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby
Took my baby away
BURNIN' FOR YOU
( - D. Roeser - R. Meltzer - )
Home in the valley
Home in the city
Home isn't pretty
Ain't no home for me
Home in the darkness
Home on the highway
Home isn't my way
Home I'll never be
Burn out the day
Burn out the night
I can't see no reason to put up a fight
I'm living for givin' the devil his due
And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
Time is the essence
Time is the season
Time ain't no reason
Got no time to slow
Time everlasting
Time to play B-sides
Time ain't on my side
Time I'll never know
Burn out the day
Burn out the night
I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong and what's right
I've seen suns that were freezing and lives that were through
And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
VETERAN OF THE PSYCHIC WARS
( - E. Bloom - M. Moorcock - )
You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
I've been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I'm young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I'm not sure if there's anything left of me
Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
It's time we had some leave
We've been living in the flames
We've been eating up our brains
Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on
You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you
You blame me for my silence
Say it's time I changed and grew
But the war's still going on dear
And there's no end that I know
And I can't say if we're ever...
I can't say if we're ever gonna to be free
Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
It's time we had some leave
We've been living in the flames
We've been eating out our brains
Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on
You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
My energy's spent at last
And my armor is destroyed
I have used up all my weapons and I'm helpless and bereaved
Wounds are all I'm made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory?
Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
Send me to the rear
Where the tides of madness swell
And been sliding into hell
Oh, please don't let shakes go on
Don't let these shakes go on
Don't let these shakes go on
SOLE SURVIVOR
( - E. Bloom - J. Trivers - L. Myers - )
There walked a lonely man
Silent, mute, the only man
Not knowing how not knowing why
Was he the sole survivor
Why should he be alive
Breathing still while others died
And the only question
Why was he the sole survivor?
Sole survivor
Cursed with second sight
Haunted savior
Cried into the night
Sole survivor
Cursed with second sight
Haunted savior
Cried into the night
Wind blew across the sand
He stood alone he had no plan
And with the last rays of the sun
He screamed aloud began to run
In his tears he sees his face
"I am the end of the human race
When I'm gone there'll be no trace
For I'm the sole survivor"
Sole survivor
Cursed with second sight
Haunted savior
Cried into the night
Sole survivor
Cursed with second sight
Haunted savior
Cried into the night
One night when years had passed
The sky shook from a fiery blast
And there a starship - saved at last
To come rescue this survivor
They beckoned him inside
But only man he would not ride
Instead he found a place to hide
For he's the sole survivor
Sole survivor
Cursed with second sight
Haunted savior
Cried into the night
HEAVY METAL: THE BLACK AND SILVER
( - A Bouchard - E. Bloom - S Pearlman - )
Into the whirlpool
Where matter vanishes
Degenerate star
Arm of Orion
An iron sun
The forbidden circle
Anti-matter is the
Black horizon
Heavy metal
Black and silver
Fallen matter
Of the sun
Pours itself
Into a place
Where there was never
Never one
By starlight
The heaviest will rise up
Magnetic mirror
Scattered bodies slow
All chaos of matter
River of fire
A night sea crossing
The cosmic fluid flows
Heavy metal
Black and silver
Fallen matter
Of the sun
Pours itself
Into a place
Where there was never
Never one
Fallen matter
From the cross
Freedom
That was never lost
Beyond being
Will be coming
Beyond time, space and control
Direction........Starlight
Creation.........Starbright
Foundation.......We forged the Einstein bridge tonight
Spans a river....Starlight
We call time.....Starbright
World............Light of darkness
Without end......Light of light
Heavy metal
Black and silver
Fallen matter
Of the sun
Pours itself
Into a place
Where there was never, never, never, never one
VENGEANCE (THE PACT)
( - A. Bouchard - J. Bouchard - )
See them standing in the foothills
Waiting for the kill
On wings of fear the terror sweeps
Into the city beat
To defend
This is the pact
But when life's scorned
And damage done
To avenge
This is the pact
On wings of vengeance
Taarna finds them
Death for barbarians
To defend
This is the pact
But when life's scorned
And damage done
To avenge
This is the pact
Flying over the oasis
She is captured and they pull her down
Feeling pain
From the air
Close my eyes
And I am there
I feel I'm falling down in a deep dark pit
"Pull him down" the soldier said
"I'll put an arrow in his head"
But the bird
Flew off instead
To save his master
On his back she fled
Her time has come
Riding her bird
High in the saddle
She gets her chance to fulfil the pact now
As their leader
Swoops from the clouds
She sticks him with her sword
Then she throws him down
The enemy shrivel and die
The enemy shrivel and die
To defend
This is the pact
But when life's scorned
And damage done
To avenge
This is the pact
AFTER DARK
( - E. Bloom - J. Trivers - L. Myers - )
What's that in the corner?
It's too dark to see
What's that noise I'm hearing
Who's that calling me?
Long ago and far away I heard your voice
But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice
Terror took control it told me what to say
And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way
After dark, I see you
After dark, I feel you
After dark, I want you
After dark, I need you
Of age there is no question
Death's shadow is undone
We only need each other
In shelter from the sun
Long ago and far away I heard your voice
But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice
Terror took control it told me what to say
And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way
After dark, I need you
After dark, I want you
After dark, I feel you
After dark, I see you
There's no turning back now
My fate is traced in blood
I've tasted true salvation
Your power is my drug
Long ago and far away I heard your voice
But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice
Terror took control it told me what to say
And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way
After dark, I need you
After dark, I want you
After dark, I feel you
After dark, I see you
After dark, I touch you
After dark, I do!
After dark
After dark
After dark
JOAN CRAWFORD
( - A. Bouchard - D. Roter - J. Rigg - )
Junkies down in Brooklyn are going crazy
They're laughing just like hungry dogs in the street
Policemen are hiding behind the skirts of little girls
Their eyes have turned the color of frozen meat
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara
They chain themselves to the axles of big Mac trucks
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, "Gentlemen, start your trucks"
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Christina
Mother's home
Christina
Come to mother
Christina
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen
DON'T TURN YOUR BACK
( - A. Lanier - D. Roeser - A. Bouchard - )
Don't turn your back
Danger surrounds you
Don't turn your back
To the dogs who hound you
Don't turn your back
Don't show your profile
You'll never know
When it's your turn to go
Don't turn your back
On intuition
Don't turn your back
On superstition
Don't turn your back
To your jealous neighbor
He just might blow
And spoil the show
Don't turn your back
One chance to save her
Don't turn your back
Keep her out of danger
Don't turn your back
She'll return the favor
She wants you so
Don't say no.
Things are not always what they seem
She will always say what she means
You'll never know who your friends really are
You'll use that special option in your car.
Don't turn your back
Danger surrounds you
Don't turn your back
To the dogs who hound you
Don't turn your back
Don't show your profile
You'll never know
When it's your turn to go
--
"Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known,
what is not known, to what extent things are known (for
nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and un-
certainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think
about things so that judgements can be made, how to distinguish
truth from fraud, and from show." - Richard Feynman
John Moore
old John Shirley novel.
I've had the good fortune to see BOC twice at local clubs. They are
great.
In article <k9p6jssf7cjup7mo0...@4ax.com>, Colonel Panic
<absi...@teleport.com> wrote:
> Here's my collection of BOC lyrics - it contains everything through
> "Imaginos". I haven't gotten 'round to adding the songs from "Heaven
> Forbid" yet.
>
> I didn't transcribe these, and there are two versions of Imaginos I
> haven't reconciled yet.
>
> Have fun, and apologies to anyone who feels they wasted their time
> downloading this. I won't do it again :)
>
> Terry
>
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John Moore
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