Revolution By Night

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

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

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

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

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