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European Tour 1982
This also was written inside concert brochure - anyone know where it comes from or who wrote it?
Let the revels begin While the night is still young Let the revels begin Call the children together How do you bury The skulls of your country How do you bury A nation of fear Where do you hide Through the long years of dying Give me a tombstone And a wreath of all yours tears..... |
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14 Jun 2003, 03:34
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I'm a librarian, I absolutely can't let questions like this go by without looking 'round a bit. I did searches of chunks of the lyrics on Yahoo and Google, and I came up with a site that seems to have the lyrics on it- but- when I go there is in German and it locks up before I can get to the lyrics. But- in the little summary on both search engines it does say copyright 1982 Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf. Maybe it was written specially for the tour book? The web address is: www.mix-it-baby.de/texte/m/MEAT-01.HTM , but be aware that it just locks up. I hope someone out there knows the answer!
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14 Jun 2003, 09:22
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Hi, Dottie and Sherrie! I've always assumed that this was Jim's song. It was called "Come into the Night." I've seen it performed in the Dortmund 1981/82? concert, which was televised.
At this time, Ted Neely (from Jesus Christ SuperStar) was a part of the Neverland Express. He came out to the mike and began to sing the song. The other members of the band, including Pam Moore, who was Meat's female singer at the time, joined in as well. Meat did NOT sing any of it. If you'd like to hear some of it, right click here to download it to your computer. Sorry that I don't have a lot of specifics. I believe it was originally written for Jim's play "Neverland." At least, it certainly sounds as though it was. But I'm sure someone will come along here who WILL know more about it than I. :) Hope this helps a little. Love, MB xxx |
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14 Jun 2003, 10:23
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 I'm in the process of amassing all my meatie stuff and filing it properly, so this this info can now be logged with the above.Thanks once again. |
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14 Jun 2003, 10:26
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14 Jun 2003, 11:50
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You're right MB. "Come In The Night" does come from Jim Steinman's play "Neverland" but it actually goes back a little further than that. The earliest trace of "Come In The Night" I've found was in the Steinman play "The Dream Engine" which was performed at Mount Holyoke College in May 1969. This was an early version of "Neverland".
"Come In The Night" was included in Meat's set for the 1981/82 tour and was later resurrected again for his "Lost Boys & Golden Girls Tour" in 1988, when Meat would play the part of Hook. |
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14 Jun 2003, 14:06
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Oh my God this music I love it -The guitar work is fantastic, and that singer I thought it was Bon Jovi for a moment. Doesn't it build I've never quite heard anything like it. Will there be any chance I could buy an original version somehow/ somewhere. I will definetely will keep this in my music library on the computer I am so glad I put this topic up it just goes to show if you don't ask, you'll never find out.
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14 Jun 2003, 14:39
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MB, thank you so much for sharing! Love, Mariella |
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14 Jun 2003, 14:54
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Dottie, if you look back at your "Bat" 25th anniversary (January) edition of the RVM you'll find the lyrics to "Come In The Night" are printed there to on the inside front cover, over a picture of a very young looking Meat & Jim!
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 In actual fact I've just checked and I hadn't taken it out of the envelope yet how stupid is that, I must have put it away for future reading and forgotten
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14 Jun 2003, 15:37
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It's strange that you should bring this topic up as I have just been listening to it on the dortmund bootleg and I got to wondering why this was never released on an official album such as Deadringeror Bad For Good?
I always thought the song was called 'Come In The Night' (Let The Revels Begin) |
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15 Jun 2003, 17:56
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Dottie, read your pm.
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