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Artist: Styx
Suggested Track: Renegade

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Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life
From the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running
And I'm so far from my home
Oh, Mama, I can hear you a crying
You're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don't have very long (yeah)

The jig is up, the news is out
They've finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Nevermore to go astray
This will be the end today of the wanted man

Oh, Mama, I've been years on the lam
And had a high price on my head
Lawman said, "Get him dead or alive"
Now it's for sure he'll see me dead

Dear Mama, I can hear you a crying
You're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don't have very long

The jig is up, the news is out
They've finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Nevermore to go astray
The judge will have revenge today
On the wanted man

Oh, Mama, I'm in fear for my life
From the long arm of the law
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don't have very long

The jig is up, the news is out
They've finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Nevermore to go astray
This will be the end today of the wanted man
The wanted man

And I don't wanna go, no-no

Mama, don't let 'em take me!
Hey, hey
No, no, no, I can't go
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Styx
Styx is a rock band from Chicago formed in 1970. They enjoyed great success with pop rock and hard rock songs, and became famous for their power ballads and album releases of the
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Styx Lyrics
Styx lyrics - 229 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Renegade", "Come Sail Away", "Babe".
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The Mission by Styx
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Crystal Ball by Styx
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Styx – Crystal Ball
[Verse 1] / I used to like to walk the straight and narrow line / I used to think that everything was fine / Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days / Through sleepless dreams / All
Styx – Crash of the Crown
See the waypoint / On that distant blue horizon on the ocean / At that place of real tranquility's devotion / Where I see my life one day with you / I'll be waiting / When you step
Styx – Come Sail Away
The fourth track from Styx’s 1977 album The Grand Illusion. The single peaked at eighth in the Billboard Hot 100 and is one of the band’s most popular songs.
Styx – Babe
[Verse 1] / Babe, I'm leaving / I must be on my way / The time is drawing near / My train is going / I see it in your eyes / The love, the need, your tears / [Bridge] / But I'll be
SOLD SOUL (Ft. Niko Apostolakis) – A Voyage Through River Styx
[Stevie O'Shaughnessy] / O Wicked One, I pledge my soul to thee / Devoid of transient God prophecies / Absent, are the chains of hypocrisy / My gaze cast at the river flowing
Styx – Too Much Time on My Hands
“Too Much Time on My Hands” is the second song in the storyline of “Paradise Theatre”. It shows the beginning of the protagonist’s demise, as he lives life as an alcoholic as he
Styx – The Grand Illusion
Written by the lead singer, and keyboardist of the band Styx, Dennis DeYoung. Released on the “The Grand Illusion” album in 1977, also included on their (Styx) greatest hits album
DEMONDICE – -intro- RIVER STYX
[Intro] / Shout-out to Scott SK, DRB, Satan's Rap Dungeon... / This is The Red, White, and Black! / Talk about a rap game turn of the century / Never been smooth sailing for the D
Panzerfaust – The Far Bank at the River Styx
Look forward to the wire / Or wither on the vine / There is no rest in our world / And seldom prescience of mind / Some men were born for the war / One way or the other / Nature
Styx – The Best of Times
“Best Of Times” continues the story arc of the Paradise Theatre album. After a post-depression/post-war boom in business, the Theatre has fallen on some hard times. Yet, unlike
Styx – Just Be
Did you make your bed? / Did you lose your head? / Are you still awake / From the things you said / You close your eyes / But the sleep won't come / `Cause you can't escape / What'
Styx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
[Verse 1] / Give me a job, give me security / Give me a chance to survive / I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line / My God, I'm hardly alive / My mother and father, my wife
Styx – Paradise
Written by dennis deyoung / Lead vocals by dennis deyoung / One touch was all I needed to know / You were the one for me / My fate and my destiny / You smiled and all at once I
Styx – Suite Madame Blue
The closing track of Styx’s 1975 album Equinox. Written by vocalist/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung, “Suite Madame Blue” is a song about America, and in fact was released a year before
Styx – To Those
[Chorus] / To those who do survive / Find beauty in your lives / Don't be afraid of love / Stand up and rise above / [Verse 1] / If young men could send the old ones to war / There
Styx – Light Up
Light up, everybody / Join us in this celebration / Light up and be happy / Sweet, sweet sounds will fill the air / Every day's a holiday when your lips meet mine / The music's
Styx – A Monster
People grow taller, the planet gets smaller each day / Endless opinions, too many with so much to say / Here's to the know-it-alls who have all the answers / Here's to the amateurs
Styx – Crash of the Crown
See the waypoint / On that distant blue horizon on the ocean / At that place of real tranquility's devotion / Where I see my life one day with you / I'll be waiting / When you step
Flummox – A Bundle of Styx
It don't matter if I sleep with a woman almost every night, or eat more pussy than a canine with an appetite / I love the ladies but I got an eye for you guys too - androgynous
Styx – Miss America
[Verse 1] / You were the apple of the public's eye / As you cut the ribbon at the local mall / A mirage for both you and us / How can this be real? / [Verse 2] / We love your body
Candlemass – Embracing the Styx
[Verse 1] / Blood runs free, down the river / I'm the weeper, the life bereaver / I cross the Styx with coins of onyx / Without the trumpets and horns and pyres / [Chorus
Styx – Lorelei
One of their earlier charting songs, just before the Chicago based group burst out. The only succesful single from their fifth album, Equinox, The song as well as the rest of
Styx – Our Wonderful Lives
[Verse 1] / It's a brand new day / And I'm tired of the uncertain / I'm throwing back the curtains for some sun on my face / And now she's smiling / She's making up a song / Gonna
Styx – Reveries
[Verse 1] / Here I'm running with the elephants / Gathering the evidence of my life / Here I'm thinking I'm a rarity / Craving popularity / Just slow down / [Verse 2] / Love me
Styx – Why Me
I guess we used to be the lucky ones / Whose fortune smiled on everyone / Stop (stop) / A voice said you best beware / Stop (stop) / Bad luck is everywhere / And sure enough the
Styx – Ballerina
[Verse 1] / It seems you finally had to choose / I guess there was no other way / Between my love and satin shoes / I knew the words you'd have to say / [Verse 2] / It all began so
Styx – High Time
I flip the switch on my laser video / And there's the man staring back at me / He starts to speak in a voice so righteous / About the sins of society / He's got the answers to all
Styx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
[Intro: Dennis DeYoung] / Relax, take it easy / [Verse 1: Tommy Shaw] / You see the world through your cynical eyes / You're a troubled young man I can tell / You got it all in the
Styx – Boat on the River
“Boat on the River” was released as a single in 1980, but did not receive much airplay in the band’s US native country but was well received in many European countries. As
Styx – Common Ground
[Chorus] / It was just a fleeting moment, on a long lost night / We both were so determined that our way was right / Now the days of our confusion have no end in sight / Can we
Hard Girls – Guadalupe on the Banks of the Styx
The river Styx is coughing and running dry / Guadalupe starves and she closes her eyes / I want to see a city that gives a shit / But they're building new businesses / On top of
Styx – Lights
I heard the knock on my door / I heard the ring of the bell / I got the letter / But I couldn't go / So many thoughts in my head / So many places to be / So many faces that I long
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – River Styx
Will you lay me down / Will you lay me down / Will you lay me down inside heaven's walls / Where every soul is a setting sun / Will you take my hand / Will you take my hand / Will
Styx – Rockin’ the Paradise
(Intro) / What you doin' tonight? / Well have you heard that the world's gone crazy? / Young Americans, listen when I say / There's people puttin' us down / I know they're sayin
Styx – Superstars
You and I / We will climb so high / We'll be superstars / Whoa whoa you and I / See you've read about me in the papers / You've seen me on the movie screen / You know everything
Kula Shaker – 2 Styx
Craving Heart! where have you been so long / You have been lost for a lifetime / Hidden in a song / I thought I have said goodbye long long time ago / I thought I had buried you
Styx – Man in the Wilderness
[Verse 1] / Another year has passed me by / Still I look at myself and cry / What kind of man have I become? / All of the years I've spent in search of myself / And I'm still in
Styx – Pieces of Eight
It's six O'clock, good morning sounds are everywhere / The warmth of spring, a gentle breeze blows through my hair / I hurry through my life never stopping to see / How beautiful
Sinister (Ft. Alexander Krull & Mathias Röderer) – Cross the Styx
Rise into the elder world / The burning purgatory / Deadly cosmic terror / The lowest dephts of hell / I signed the book of blood / By will - now that's a fact / Marked by the
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