BLUE OYSTER CULT – 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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – 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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – She’s As Beautiful As A Foot

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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – See You In Black

I’d like to see you in black
It’d make me feel like your husband’s dead
I’d like to see you in black
We could make him suffer instead

I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black

You can’t lie to me Ann
You can’t pretend he isn’t beating you up
I saw the marks on your hands
I saw the blood on your coffee cup

I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black

The wind plucks your black lace gown
You’re standin’ proudly beside his grave
I see you wearing black
Gently smiling and oh so brave

We’ll run away to Greece
We’ll walk the ruins of the Parthenon
We’ll drink ouzo in our tub
Watch the dust billow ’til the night’s gone

I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black
I’d love to see you in black I’d love to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black
I’d like to see you in black
In black
In black

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Redeemed

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 – I Love The Night

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 a 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

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 that 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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)

Down in the garden district
Where the plants grow strong and tall
Behind the bush there lurks a girl
Who makes them strong and tall

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

In the fall when plants return
By harvest time, she knows the score
Ripe and ready to the eye
But rotten somehow to the core

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

A harvest of life, or 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

It’s springtime now and cares subside
And the planting’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
Lying listless in the sun
And the quick lime 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

A harvest of life, a harvest of death
Resumes it’s course each day
Because it exists by schedule
A harvest to live, ……
And those that crawl, and those that chirp
And next life’s swans that seem to turn

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Godzilla

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
Oh no, there goes Tokyo go go Godzilla

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Flaming Telepaths

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 you do
Is it any wonder that the joke’s an iron
And the jokes 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 you do
Is it any wonder that the joke’s an iron
And the jokes on you

And the joke’s on you [repeat ad infinitum]

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Fire Of Unknown Origin

Death comes sweeping through the hallway, like a lady’s dress
Death comes driving down the highway, in it’s Sunday best

A fire of unknown origin took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin took my baby away

Swept to ruin off my wavelength, swallowed her up
Like the ocean in a fire, so thick and gray

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
Something… something…

A fire of unknown origin took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin took my baby away

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Feel The Thunder

Slicing through the night Three riders
Perched on American steel Riders with no name
Time cannot reveal riders with no names

On October 31′st 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
And they started their bikes with a roar
They couldn’t have known that on this night
They were beginning their longest tour

[Chorus:]
Feel the thunder of the midnight ride
They’re torn asunder by those who died
Feel the thunder of the midnight ride
They’re torn asunder by those who died

On to their favorite road they rode
Leather horsemen ridin’ three wide
Their metal beasts howled in the night
And dark spectre was their guide
They came around the curve too fast
Only time for a scream
A fiery crash of chrome and steel
Was the beginning of the longest dream

[Chorus:]

As their fates decreed that night
Their souls must be tried
Now you can hear them every Hallows Eve
Forever doomed to ride

Slicing through the night Three riders
Perched on American steel Riders with no name
Time cannot reveal riders with no names

[Chorus:]

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Dr. Music

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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Don’t Turn Your Back

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 won’t 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

Don’t turn your back
Don’t turn your back
Don’t turn your back

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Dancin’ In The Ruins

Tomorrow soon turns into yesterday.
Everything we see just fades away.
There’s sky and sand where mountains used to be.
Time drops by a second to eternity.
It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust;
Turn and turn and turn we must!
I guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight!
Dancin’ in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight!

There’s laughter where I used to see your tears.
It’s all done with mirrors, have no fears.
There’s nothing pure or sacred in our time.
The nights we spent together are no crime.
It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust;
Turn and turn and turn we must!
I guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight!
Dancin’ in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight!

Like marble statues always flowing lay,
From castles built in silence, let us play.
Even though our skulls rot in our flesh.
We can build a laser, tear the mesh.
It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust;
Turn and turn and turn we must.
I guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight! Dancin’ in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight! Dancin’ in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight! Dancin’ in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancin’ in the ruins tonight!
Dancin’ in the ruins!

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Cities On Flame 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

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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Blue Oyster Cult

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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – The Revenge Of 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

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Astronomy

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 the 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 let 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 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 the four winds bar

It’s the nexus of the crisis
The origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey, hey, hey, hey

Call me Desdenova, 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 indefinitely]

BLUE OYSTER CULT – 7 Screaming Diz-Busters

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 by a rose
Had iron for a bloodstream and ice behind their eyes

On each and all those holy nights
Where dusters dust becomes the sale and lucifer, 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 the warmth they learn to crave
With hardened smiles and evil signs

On each and all those holy nights
Where dusters dust becomes the sale and lucifer, the light

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 loose (?)
Well their laugh of pain…And their harder smiles…
And their rigid arms…And their evil signs…
Longer days and the longer nights
And their longer, and longer still

On each and all those holy nights
Where dusters dust becomes the sale and lucifer, the light

BLUE OYSTER CULT – Black Blade

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

There’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 burdens 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 its 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

The black blade
Forged a million billion years ago
My cosmic sword 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!