![]() Their third album, 1974's gold-certified Secret Treaties, established them as mainstays on FM radio, and they were enshrined as arena rock headliners worldwide with 1975's double-live On Your Feet or on Your Knees, 1976's platinum-certified Agents of Fortune, and 1978's platinum live outing Some Enchanted Evening. They have sold more than 25 million records, and they released a handful of singles during the '70s that became classic rock radio standards, among them "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Burnin' for You," and "Godzilla." Lyrics that crisscrossed science fiction, the occult, and horror films their layered, three-guitar attack expansive vocal harmonies and almost inimitable balance between crunchy riffs and infectious hooks resulted in the most listenable metal of the '70s. The normal life, that love of that regular "girl next door" who could never bear the continuous journeying of this hellbound Path, the abandonment of something more beautiful and genuine than anything that will ever be discovered on the Great Adventure ensuing from this Faustian agreement that in the end will leave the author burning for eternity.Since releasing their self-titled 1972 Columbia debut, Blue Öyster Cult have been called everything from the thinking man's heavy metal group to an occult rock band to the first pop/heavy metal act. That special, sweet regular girl who makes a house a home is never going to wait around for THAT, and often not even for a tame and mature touring musician. The stories we have heard of with Led Zeppelin and The Who were the stories of very young men who were otherwise BORED and entertaining themselves. It's not really fun or glamorous, especially once reaching your 30s, which Buck would have been by the time he wrote this. ![]() Anyone who has traveled for their career knows what this feels like, but turn it up many notches of intensity with the trappings of being a touring rock star. A big trade off "living for giving the devil his due" and the home he will never have, which includes the regular things everyone needs. Soldier what you describe would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about and the "between the lines" sub-narrative. I mean Dont fear the reaper was written about Stephen King's The Stand- and that is proven. ![]() and these guys seem to like to write songs about books. He says "WE KNOW TIME" about 2 dozen times throughout the book. I mean Dont fear the reaper was written about Stephen King's The Stand- and that is proven.īesides the fact that The opening lyrics of Burnin for You are obviously a rewrite of Kerouac song, the two main characters spend a lot of time waxing philosophic about a lot of things, including TIME, and one of them(Dean Moriarty) has something of a catchphrase. the lyrics areīesides the fact that The opening lyrics of Burnin for You are obviously a rewrite of Kerouac song, the two main characters spend a lot of time waxing philosophic about a lot of things, including TIME, and one of them(Dean Moriarty) has something of a catchphrase. Kerouac even wrote a fictional song that appears in the book at a couple points. Its about two guys during the late fifties who spent a lot of time bumming around the country getting into a lot of different shit, doing drugs, and lookin for love. I cant find any acknowledgment of this but The song was obviously written about the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Well I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you I've seen suns that were freezing and lives that were through I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong or what's right I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you And I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you
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