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Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll

This version of Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll was released by Blue Oyster Cult in 1972.

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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

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Blue Oyster Cult has released many songs over the years besides Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll. Blue Oyster Cult released songs from 1972 to 2001 spanning across albums like Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny And Mutation, Secret Treaties, Agents Of Fortune, Spectres, Mirrors, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fire Of Unknown Origin, The Revolution By Night, Club Ninja, Imaginos, Heaven Forbid, and Curse Of The Hidden Mirror. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Blue Oyster Cult.

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The lyrics for Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Blue Oyster Cult. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll 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 Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll - Blue Oyster Cult 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 Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll by Blue Oyster Cult 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 Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll" means the words set to the music of Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blue Oyster Cult. 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 Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll and the lyrics to Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blue Oyster Cult who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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