The Vigil

The Vigil

Artist	Blue Öyster Cult
Album	Mirrors
Released	June 19, 1979
Length	6:25
Writers	Donald Roeser Sandy Roeser
Lead vocals	Donald Roeser

The Vigil is the sixth track from Blue Öyster Cult's sixth studio album, Mirrors.

Lyrics

In a purple vision (Vision)
Many thousand years ago
I saw the silent stranger (Stranger)
Walk the earth alone

Twenty seven faces (Faces)
With their eyes turned to the sky
I've got a camera (Camera)
And an air-tight alibi

I know they're out there
We see them coming
Faster than the speed of light
They greet us in the dead of night

(Somewhere) Someday, someone
There'll be light and sound
They'll alight on the ground on which we stand
(Somewhere) Someday, someone
Will help us to survive
They're gonna show us hell and bring us back alive

Well, I'm no poet
But I can't be fooled
The lies don't count
The whispers do
I hear the whispers on the wind
They say the earth has fallen due

We run in circles
Our days are numbered
Every night, I look away
To the heavens and I pray

Come to us
Come to us
Come to us
Come to us

Our lights are dim
Our roads are crumbling (Down)
And we don't know what to do
We're sick and tired and dying to meet you (Meet you)
'Cause we bit off more than we can chew

Trivia

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