Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll


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1. Long Live Rock 'N' Roll

All right

Rock and roll, yeah

 

At the end of a dream

If you know where I mean

When the mist just starts to clear

 

In a similar way

At the end of today

I can feel the sound of writing on the wall

It cries for you

It's the least that you can do

 

Like a spiral on the wind

I can hear it screamin' in my mind

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

Let it live

 

In a different time

When the words didn't rhyme

You could never quite be sure

Then on with the change

It was simple but strange

And you knew the feeling seemed to say it all

It cries for you

It's the least that you can do

Like a spiral on the wind

I can hear it screamin' in my mind

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

I'm losing control

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll, yeah

Long live rock and roll

Look you

 

If you suddenly see

What has happened to me

You should spread the word around

 

And tell everyone here

That it is perfectly clear

They can sail above it all on what they've found

It cries for you

It's the best that you can do

Like a sound that's everywhere

I can hear it screaming through the air

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

Let it live, let it live, let it live

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll, yeah

Long live rock and roll

 

Banners held high with a curse and cry and it's

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

You feel it around, spread it around, make you what just should

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

Live, live, live, live

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

Let it live, let it live, let it live, let it live

 

Long live rock and roll

Long live rock 'n' roll

Long live rock and roll

 

 

2. Lady Of The Lake

There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground

Makin' it shiver and shake

And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky

Slippery and sly like a snake

 

With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth

A shadow has covered the light

Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade

Has shattered the edge of the night

 

I know she waits below

Only to rise on command

When she comes for me

She's got my life in her hands

 

When a movement behind hit the side of my mind

I trembled and shook it away

Then another assault and I started to faulter

Fibres of steel turned to clay

 

With a bubbly turn now the water should churn

And push it way from the core

And a lady in white will bring sun to the night

Brighter than ever before

 

I know she waits below

Only to rise on command

When she comes for me

She's got my life in her hands

Lady of the lake

 

There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground

Makin' it shiver and shake

And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky

Slippery and sly like a snake

 

With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth

A shadow has covered the light

Then a beam in the shade from a slivery blade

Has shattered the edge of the night

 

Straight down I'm swirling around

Blinded and bruised by the strain

There must be some way to see

Diamonds out of the rain

 

I know she waits below

Only to rise on command

When she comes for me

She's got my life in her hands

Lady of the lake

 

3. L.A. Connection

Oh, carry home by broken bones and lay me down to rest

Forty days of cries and moans I guess

I've failed to pass the test

I've been sent away not a thing to say

I'm banished from the fold

I'm a fallen angel who's lost his wings and left out in the cold

 

Ooooh L.A. connection

Oh L.A. connection

L.A. connection, yeah

 

Operator place a call keep secret but it through

Investigator knows it all he's at the window I wonder who

I've got to cut the line and let me drift find a haven in the storm

I got no time I need a lift to where it's sweet and close and warm

 

I say

Ooooh L.A. connection

Oh L.A. connection

L.A. connection

 

Hey, carry home my broken bones and lay me down to rest

Forty days of cries and moans well I've just failed the test

Feel I'm balanced on the brim should I lean another way

Like a flame that's going on the dim needs blessing from the day, oh

 

Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection

Oh take me away I got nothing to say

It's got to be an L.A. connection, oh

Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection

 

Ooooh, L.A., L.A., L.A., L.A., L.A. connection

Connection, oh

 

Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection

Oh L.A., oh, L.A. connection

L.A., L.A. inspection

Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection

 

Oh I'm down, oh I'm down

I can't take a rejection

L.A., need an L.A. connection

L.A., yeah, oh L.A. connection

L.A. connection

I'm flying away

Take me back home, I gotta get home to L.A.

L.A., L.A. connection, L.A.

Oh, L.A. connection, L.A. connection

Ooooh, ooooh, L.A. connection, L.A.

 

4. Gates Of Babylon

Look away from the sea

I can take you anywhere

Spend a vision with me

A chase with the wind

 

Move closer to me

I can make you anyone

I think you're ready to see

The gates of Babylon

 

The power of what has been before

Rises to trap you within

A magic carpet ride a genie maybe more

A city of heavenly sin

Sleep with the devil and then you must pay

Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away

Oh gates of Babylon

 

You can see but you're blind

Someone turned the sun around

But you can see in your mind

The gates of Babylon

 

You're riding the endless caravan

Bonded and sold as a slave

A sabre dance removing all the veils

Getting as good as you gave

Sleep with the devil and then you must pay

Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away

 

Look away from the sea

I can take you anywhere

Spend a vision with me

A chase with the wind

 

Move closer to me

I can make you anyone

I think you're ready to see

The gates of Babylon

 

The power of what has been before

Rises to trap you within

A magic carpet ride a genie maybe more

A city of heavenly sin

Sleep with the devil and then you must pay

Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away

Black gates of Babylon

 

The devil is me

And I'm holding the key

To the gates of sweet hell

Babylon

 

5. Kill The King

Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill

There's a stranger, stranger and life about to spill

Oh no move me out of harm

I need a spell and a charm

Fly like the wind

I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the king

Tear him down

 

Kill the king, yeah

Strike him down

 

Power, power it happens every day

Power, devour all along the way

Oh no, move me out of harm

I need a spell and a charm

And fly like the wind

I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the king

 

Treason, treason, the spectre looms again

Treason, reason, the realm is safe and then

Oh no, move away from harm

I need a spell and a charm

Fly like the rainbow

I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

 

Kill the king

Tear him down

Kill the king, yeah

Got to take his crown

Crown

 

Kill the king

He'll rule no more

Strike him dead

The people roar

 

Kill the king, yeah

Take his head

Down, down, down, down

Oh, kill

Oh, kill

Oh, oh

 

6. The Shed (Subtle)

I'm like a freight train

Feelin' no pain

I never turn back one track

Better step aside

 

Like a shotgun

I'm really someone

You'll feel my heatwave

Won't save anyone near to me

 

I'm steel

So come and try to bend me if you can, hah

I don't feel

Before you know it it's over

Get out of my way

I'm street walking, street walking

Night stalking, I'm street walking

 

No reputation

You better quick run

Cause I got no time I'll climb

All over you

 

You need a strong hand

To be a mean man

You've got to think fast

I'll last longer than you could know

 

I'm steel

So won't you come and try to bend me if you can

I don't feel

Before you know it it's over

Out of my way

I'm street walking

Hey, I'm a wild cat

Don't need to prove that

I'm always howlin' prowlin'

Stalkin' my prey

 

It could be your night

To feel the dog bite

And hear the slashing, crashin'

Tearin' inside of you

I'm steel

So come and try to break me if you can, no way

Like a wheel

About to roll you over

Get out of my way

I'm street walkin', street walkin'

No talkin', street walking

Night stalking, street walking

No talkin', I'm street walkin', yeah

Street walkin', street walkin'

Night stalking, street walking

 

7. Sensitive To Light

I was feelin' rather good

Should've touched some wood

Here she comes again

Reachin' out to bend my ear

 

She's worth another look

All the time it took

Pleasin' to the eye

How can I just disappear, oh

It ain't clear, no

She's a bright and shining star

But I just must be sensitive to light

Oh I just might, yeah

 

I could have let her in

Give her just a spin

Let her think it's love

Better rise above it all

 

She's knockin' at the door

Seems to want some more

Never gets the clue

What am I to do she'll fall

And she might call, oh no

She's a bright and shining star

But I just must be sensitive to light

Oh, I just know

 

She could do me well

I can always tell

She's ready for the kill

But I think that I will go, no

 

Sure I'm gonna see

Something just for me

Till it comes along

When it's feelin' wrong I'll know

Gotta take it slow, yeah

 

She's a bright and shining star

But I just must be sensitive to light

Oh, I might, yeah

 

She's a bright and blazing star

But I just must be sensitive to light, yeah

Sensitive to light, Ooooh

 

8. Rainbow Eyes

She's been gone since yesterday

Oh I didn't care

Never cared for yesterdays

Fancies in the air

 

No sighs or mysteries

She lay golden in the sun

No broken harmonies

But I've lost my way

She had rainbow eyes

Rainbow eyes

Rainbow eyes

 

Love should be a simple blend

A whispering on the shore

No clever words you can't defend

They lead to never more

 

No sighs or mysteries

She lay golden in the sun

No broken harmonies

But I've lost my way

She had rainbow eyes

Rainbow eyes

Rainbow eyes

 

Summer nights are colder now

They've taken down the fair

All the lights have died somehow

Or were they ever there

 

No sighs or mysteries

She lay golden in the sun

No broken harmonies

But I've lost my way

She had rainbow eyes

Oh, ooh