Lyrics to
ME 262

This version of Me 262 was released by Blue Oyster Cult in 1974.

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Goering’s on the phone to Freiburg
Say’s Willie’s done quite a job
Hitler’s on the phone from Berlin
Say’s I’m gonna make you a star

My Captain Von Ondine, here’s your next patrol
A flight of English bombers across the canal
After twelve, they’ll all be here
I think you know the job

They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die

In a G-load disaster from the rate of climb
Sometimes I’d faint and be lost to our side
But there’s no reward for failure, but death
So watch me in the mirrors, keep in the glidepath

Get me through these radars, no I cannot fail
Not when great silver slugs are eager to feed
I can’t fail, no not now
When twenty five bombers wait ripe

They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die

Me-262 prince of turbojet, Junker’s jommo 004
Blasts from clustered R4M quartets in my snout
And see these English planes go burn
Now you be my witness how red were the skies
When the fortresses flow, for the very last time
It was dark over Westphalia, in april of T45

They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die

Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Junker.s jommo 004
Bombers at 12 o’clock high

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About Lyrics and Me 262 by Blue Oyster Cult

The lyrics to Me 262 are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Blue Oyster Cult used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Me 262 have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Blue Oyster Cult and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Me 262 by Blue Oyster Cult. 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 Me 262" means the words set to the music of Me 262, 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 Me 262 and the lyrics to Me 262 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 Me 262, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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