Red Rider

Released: June 30, 1981

Songwriter: Tom Cochrane

Producer: Richard Landis Michael James Jackson

Here it comes that lonely feeling again
Well, I think I'll call up my nouveau friends
Met her at 'The Edge' on a Monday night
And I think that she'd be fun but she's not my type

We talking about the accident
All messed up and that's exactly what she meant
Inherit the wind and start over again

What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight

I don't want to talk about what's fashionable
I don't want to know about what is in vogue
I want to know about the way that you feel
I want to have fun, I want to know what is real

I feel like a bird was frying on a wire
Walking on coals to cool my desire
Inherit the wind but you're gonna get tired

What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight, oh

Ooh and I feel like a bird that's frying on a wire
Walking on coals to cool my desire
Inherit the wind but you're gonna get tired

What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off tonight

What have you got to do to get off tonight
Hey, what have you got to do to get off tonight
What have you got to do to get off, hey, hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ooh, yeah

Red Rider was a Canadian rock band that formed in 1975. A few years later, future rock legend Tom Cochrane joined the band, and in 1979 released its breakthrough album Don’t Fight It. As Far as Siam, released in 1981, contained Lunatic Fringe, which remains Red Rider’s largest success. The band broke up silently in 1990, but reformed in 2002 and plays live to this day.

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From the albums

As Far as Siam (1981)
Over 60 Minutes with Red Rider (1987)

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