Mirrors (Blue Öyster Cult album)

Mirrors is the sixth studio album by Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1979. Mirrors is the first Blue Öyster Cult album not produced by long-time producer and manager Sandy Pearlman. The album is notable for a collaboration with British fantasy/science-fiction author Michael Moorcock who co-wrote a song based on his novel The Fireclown. "The Great Sun Jester" is the first of several Moorcock co-writing credits with the band.

After the success of 1976's Platinum Agents of Fortune, 1977's Gold Spectres and 1978's Platinum live effort Some Enchanted Evening, the fact that Mirrors struggled to reach Gold status was disappointing to band and label alike. According to interviews with the band and the production staff, the intent for this album was to make a high charting and glossy production; however the backlash felt from this attempt was a reason for their future pairing with Martin Birch, and their attempt to return to a darker sound.

"In Thee" was written by Allen Lanier. It went in to the chart at No. 74. A live version is featured on their 1998 album Heaven Forbid, it features two acoustic guitars and was a popular "in concert" moment from this era. The line "Jim says some destinies should not be delivered" references the Jim Carroll Band song "Day and Night."

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In Thee

by: Blue Öyster Cult

Maybe I?ll see you again baby, and maybe I won?t
Maybe you?ve bought your ticket, gone back to Detroit
Aeroplanes make strangers of us all
Give us distance, much too easily
Jim says, "Some destinies should not be delivered"
But you and I've seen now baby, that still they are
Winnin', it makes losers of us all
?Cause the dice roll so indifferently
Well, I?ll wrap myself in cities I travel
I?ll wrap myself in dreams
I?ll wrap myself in solitude
But I wish I could wrap myself in thee
Tonight it?s hot, without you tomorrow?ll be cold
Winter will come along driven by snow
Love, it makes strangers of us all
When we part oh, so thoughtlessly
Well, I?ll wrap myself in cities I travel
I?ll wrap myself in dreams
I?ll wrap myself in solitude
But I wish I could wrap myself in thee
Once we breathed the breath of sweet surrender
Pure, pure Arab air filled our atmosphere
But pride, it makes stars of us all
Until we fall for everyone to see
So I?ll wrap myself in cities I travel
I?ll wrap myself in dreams
I?ll wrap myself in stranger?s arms
But I wish I could wrap myself in thee
I?ll wrap myself in cities I travel
I?ll wrap myself in dreams
I?ll wrap myself in solitude




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