Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver

Blue Öyster Cult * Track #5 On Fire of Unknown Origin

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Album Fire of Unknown Origin

ALBUM

Blue Öyster Cult

1981

Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver by Blue Öyster Cult

Performed by

Blue Öyster Cult

Produced by

Martin Birch

Writed by

Sandy Pearlman & Albert Bouchard & Eric Bloom

About

The lyrics to the song were inspired by the 1977 book, The Iron Sun: Crossing The Universe Through Black Holes, by Adrian Berry. Several of the lyrics to the first verse are derived from chapter titles of the book.

The chapters to Part One (Through the Black Hole) are titled as follows:

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Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver Lyrics

[Verse 1: Eric Bloom]
Into the whirlpool, where matter vanishes
Degenerate star, arm of Orion
An iron sun, the forbidden circle
Anti-matter is the black horizon!

[Chorus: Eric Bloom]
Heavy metal, black and silver
Fallen matter of the sun
Pours itself into a place
Where there was never, never one!

[Verse 2: Eric Bloom]
By starlight, the heaviest will rise up
Magnetic mirror, scattered bodies slow
All chaos of matter, river of fire
A night sea crossing, the cosmic fluid flows

[Chorus: Eric Bloom]
Heavy metal, black and silver
Fallen matter of the Sun
Pours itself into a place
Where there was never, never one!

[Bridge: Eric Bloom]
Fallen matter, from the cross
Freedom, that was never lost
Beyond being will be coming
Beyond time, space and control
Direction (starlight)
Creation (starbright)
Foundation (we forged the Einstein bridge tonight)
Spans a river (starlight)
We call time (starbright)
World (light of darkness)
Without end (light of light)

[Chorus/Outro: Eric Bloom]
Heavy metal, black and silver
Fallen matter of the Sun
Pours itself into a place
Where there was never, never, never, never one!

Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver Q&A

Who wrote Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver's ?

Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver was written by Sandy Pearlman & Albert Bouchard & Eric Bloom.