Editing Tainted Blood

{{Infobox song
|title=Tainted Blood
|image=The symbol remains cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|album=''[[The Symbol Remains]]''
|released=September 25, 2020 (video)<br>October 9, 2020 (album)
|length=4:18
|writers=[[Eric Bloom]]<br>[[Richie Castellano]]
|lead-vocals=Richie Castellano}}
'''Tainted Blood''' is the third track from [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s fifteenth studio album, ''[[The Symbol Remains]]''. It was released as a music video on September 25, 2020.

== Lyrics ==
<poem style="border: 1px solid #8eb6d4; background-color: #0b0b14; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 3em; border-radius: 10px; width: fit-content">
We danced among the mortals, blind to their despair
As the sweet scent of certainty fills the midnight air
I offer first taste to my love, as is our way
"Tainted blood," she cries and dies, my whole world fades away

No one to wipe my bloody tears
The life we had for two hundred years

Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light
Do whatever it takes to end this endless night
Without her, there's nothing for me
Make the sign of the cross, wrap me in silver chains
Do whatever it takes to end my pain
Without her, eternity is misery

Throughout the many years, our lives were oh, so sweet
But this tainted blood has taken everything from me
No place for me within this world, the dance is done
No reason to remain, you were the only one

No one to wipe my bloody tears
The life we had for two hundred years

Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light
Do whatever it takes to end this endless night ''(End this night)''
Without her, there's nothing for me
Make the sign of the cross, wrap me in silver chains
Do whatever it takes to end my pain
Without her, eternity is misery

No one to wipe my bloody tears
The life we had for two hundred years

Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light
Do whatever it takes to end this endless night ''(End this night)''
Without her, there's nothing for me
Make the sign of the cross, wrap me in silver chains
Do whatever it takes to end my pain
Without her, eternity is misery

''(Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light)''
There's nothing, nothing for me
''(Make the sign of the cross, wrap me in silver chains)''
''(Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light)''
''(Make the sign of the cross, wrap me in silver chains)''
''(Put a stake through my heart, throw me out in the light)''</poem>

== Music video ==
<youtube>8H0iX-_Vts0</youtube>

== Trivia ==
* This is the first song on a studio album to feature Richie Castellano on lead vocals.
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