Silver Lights

Album: Nine on a Ten Scale (1976)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is one of several songs which was inspired by Hagar's belief that he was abducted by aliens as a child. Running 5:38, this necessarily enigmatic number is a Hagar solo composition, and the fifth track on his Nine On A Ten Scale album.

    Although melodically "Silver Lights" has little if anything in common with Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush," the two songs are not a million miles apart. Or should that be light years? >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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