Stormbringer

Album: Stormbringer (1974)
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  • Coming out of nowhere, driving like rain
    Stormbringer dance on the thunder again
    Dark cloud gathering, breaking the day
    No point running because it's coming your way

    Ride the rainbow
    Crack the sky
    Stormbringer coming
    Time to die
    We got to keep running
    Stormbringer coming

    He's got nothing you need
    He's going to make you bleed
    Oh, yea-yeah

    You know he's gonna get you

    Rainbow shaker on a stallion twister
    Bareback rider on the eye of the sky
    Stormbringer coming down, meaning to stay
    Thunder and lightning heading your way

    Ride the rainbow
    Crack the sky
    Stormbringer coming
    Time to die
    Got to keep running
    Stormbringer coming

    He's got nothing you need
    He's going to make you bleed
    Yeah

    Ooh-ooh-ooh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh, yeah

    Coming out of nowhere, driving like rain
    Stormbringer dance on the thunder again
    Dark cloud gathering, breaking the day
    No point running

    'Cause it's coming your way
    'Cause it's coming your way
    'Cause it's coming your way
    'Cause it's coming your way
    'Cause it's coming your way Writer/s: David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • George Gaprindashvili from Minneapolis, MnIn 1975, in Soviet Georgia, we heard “Stormbringer” in a completely different way.
    We didn’t know about Michael Moorcock or the sword — those books didn’t exist for us behind the Iron Curtain.

    The word “Stormbringer” immediately connected to our own cultural symbol: the storm‑herald bird — the буревестник in Russian, ქარიშხალა in Georgian — a fearless creature sailors believed appeared before storms.

    So for us, the song was about that mythic storm‑bird, the one that dances above chaos and brings the storm with it.

    Decades later I learned that David wrote it about a mythical creature of his own imagination, and only afterward discovered Moorcock’s sword.
    I just wanted to share how the song lived in our world back then — a different place, a different time, but the same music connecting us all.
  • Mick from Newcastle I was heavily into the dune novels when listening to this album and the original dune movie came out and I thought stormbringer has to be something like this...even a massive sand worm the solo seems to sound hot like desert sands and sciroccos
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