Lyrics to
Gates Of Babylon

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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

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Rainbow has released many songs over the years besides Gates Of Babylon. Rainbow released songs from 1975 to 1995 spanning across albums like Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising, Long Live Rock'n'Roll, Down To Earth, Difficult To Cure, Straight Between The Eyes, Bent Out Of Shape, and Stranger In Us All. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Rainbow.

About Lyrics and Gates Of Babylon by Rainbow

The lyrics for Gates Of Babylon are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Rainbow. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Gates Of Babylon 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 Gates Of Babylon - Rainbow 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 Gates Of Babylon by Rainbow 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 Gates Of Babylon" means the words set to the music of Gates Of Babylon, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rainbow. 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 Gates Of Babylon and the lyrics to Gates Of Babylon are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rainbow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Gates Of Babylon, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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