Lyrics to
Children Of The Night

This version of Children Of The Night was released by Steppenwolf in 1974.

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Some of us are Rock n’ Roll stars
Chasing the flash and travel
Most of us wear the right length of hair
But that’s all that is left of the dream
Oh, the dream it was born in the summer of love
And it died with the Woodstock Nation
But what has it left for the carpenter’s son
And the new coming generation?
Oh, we all believed we knew the way
But fate did not agree
Now we’ve tired of asking who we are
And what we ought to be

Children of the night howling at the gate
Here to claim forgotten dreams
Too late, too late
Orphans of the darkness
Waiting to belong
Been list’ning to the same old story
Too long to care, too long

Barely thirteen…hard and they’re mean…
Hunting in packs…like jackals…
They prey on the meek, the old and the weak
Like a scourge on the face of the earth
All around our town
They’re fighting with guns
And building their homemade bazookas
And ten year old Jimmy got arrested in school
They found a tank in his locker
Oh, we all believed we held the key
To peaceful harmony
But the times have changed the way we feel
And we fear our destiny

Sure must be fun to watch a president run
Just ask the man who owns one
Why, up on the hill, they’re killing the bill
That would pay for his capitol crime
But cardinal sin- he blessed him and said
“I know that you’re rotten down to the core
But nobody else can do it so well
That’s why I’m behind you for three years more”
Oh, they all believed they’d found the one
Who’d lead them to the light
But the tides will turn against the fool
Who’d believe that wrong it right

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About Lyrics and Children Of The Night by Steppenwolf

The lyrics for Children Of The Night are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Steppenwolf. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Children Of The Night have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Children Of The Night - Steppenwolf and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Children Of The Night by Steppenwolf in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Children Of The Night" means the words set to the music of Children Of The Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Steppenwolf. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Children Of The Night and the lyrics to Children Of The Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Steppenwolf who came here looking just for the lyrics to Children Of The Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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