Blue Oyster Cult - Revolution by Night (1983) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn --------------------------- 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