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Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Canonical path: /blue-oyster-cult/the-vigil
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The Vigil
Read The Vigil lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Vigil
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In a purple vision
Many thousand years ago
I saw the silent stranger
Walk the earth alone
Twenty-seven faces
With their eyes turned to the sky
I've got a camera
And an airtight alibi
I know they're out there
We see them coming
Faster than the speed of light
They greet us in the dead of the night
Somewhere, someday, someone
They'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
Our lights are dim
Our roads are crumbling
And we don't know what to do
We're sick and tired
And dying to meet you
'Cause we bit off more than
We can chew
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Blue Öyster Cult performs "The Vigil", and this lyric page sits inside the Blue Öyster Cult catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to (Don't Fear) The Reaper and After Dark with a short reason for opening each page next.
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