Lyrics to
Drifting Sun

This version of Drifting Sun was released by Scorpions in 1974.

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Well, sitting on a stone,
Sitting all alone,
Sticky things are rolling down the mountain.
Well, see the lonesome tramp
Who’s living in the damp
Nobody’s in the valley

Shine on, shine on, Sun – oh it’s so cold right here
Shine on, shine on, Sun – shine on all night long

Daydreams are of silent blue
Icy wings will carry you.
Midnight Sun will never shine
Just ravings of a fool you think
And laugh about him all the time.

Shine on, shine on, Sun – oh it’s so cold right here
Shine on, shine on, Sun – shine on all night long

White pale velvet Autumn Sun will fade away
Forgotten Life will finish now in endless grey.
Some days are drifting haze
Some days are glowing blaze
Some days are tides of life…

Staggerin’ along a tropic highway
Crazy lights are whirling ’round and ’round
Hell or heaven – Night or Day?
Burning fingers push the Sun away…

Shine on, shine on, Sun…

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Scorpions has released many songs over the years besides Drifting Sun. Scorpions released songs from 1972 to 2007 spanning across albums like Lonesome Crow, Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer, Taken By Force, Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love At First Sting, Savage Amusement, Crazy World, Face The Heat, Pure Instinct, Eye II Eye, Moment Of Glory, Unbreakable, and Humanity - Hour 1. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Scorpions.

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About Lyrics and Drifting Sun by Scorpions

The lyrics for Drifting Sun are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Scorpions. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Drifting Sun 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 Drifting Sun - Scorpions 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 Drifting Sun by Scorpions 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 Drifting Sun" means the words set to the music of Drifting Sun, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Scorpions. 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 Drifting Sun and the lyrics to Drifting Sun are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Scorpions who came here looking just for the lyrics to Drifting Sun, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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