BOC: Black Blade lyrics

Sprawl sprawl at STARPOWER.NET
Thu Jan 27 17:15:12 EST 2000


Yep. You're right.  My apologies for my foolishly relying on my increasingly
poor memory. =(

RJ

>Actually, there are a lot of lines in the lyrics that came with ETL that do
>not appear in the song Black Blade, including the Stormbringer section.
They
>are as follows:
>
>-----
>
>There are ruins in my past
>There are ruins in my destiny
>
>That there's freedom in my blade
>
>And its cosmic song--it goes on too long
>
>It's the evilest weapon that ever was made
>
>Singing for eternity
>
>Death in the Flames
>The Earth, the Sky, the Sea
>
>Doesn't care if I'm willing
>
>----------
>
>The rest of the listed lyrics are parts of the song, but they're all mixed
>up, scattered, and reorganized.  I imagine the lyrics as printed are as
>Moorcock wrote them, in which case it's interesting to see how BOC took the
>lyrics and adapted them to the music.  Of course, the Hawkwind folks here
can
>probably give us more info on this process. :-)
>
>Steven Tice
>Calliope Comics



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