[Verse 1: Joe Bouchard]
Flights of black horseman
Soar o'er the churches
Pursued by an army of birds in the rain
None of them can see the clouds
The polished wings don't care
Animal waves through the hazy dreams full of pain
[Chorus: Joe Bouchard]
Wings wetted down
Stumbling on the ground
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
[Verse 2: Joe Bouchard]
The voices sound deadly
Sometimes I hear
Echoes of empires spread throughout the sky
[Chorus: Joe Bouchard]
Wings wetted down
Stumbling on the ground
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
[Verse 3: Joe Bouchard]
Flights of black horseman
Soar o'er the churches
Pursued by an army of birds in the rain
[Chorus: Joe Bouchard]
Wings wetted down
It all turns around
It all turns around
In the end, the end, the end
Wings Wetted Down was written by Joe Bouchard & Albert Bouchard.
Wings Wetted Down was produced by Sandy Pearlman.
Blue Öyster Cult released Wings Wetted Down on Sun Feb 11 1973.
According to Joe Bouchard
most of the lyrics for “Wings Wetted Down” came from a book of poems by Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet (referred to as one of the 3 or 4 greatest Spanish-language poets of this century, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971).