Styx

Released: May 10, 2005

Featuring: The Oracle Diva

Songwriter: John Rabbit Bundrick Paul Rodgers Paul Kossoff Tetsu Yamauchi Simon Kirke

Producer: Gowan Todd Sucherman Ricky Phillips James Young Tommy Shaw

Take off your hat, kick off your shoes
I know you not goin' anywhere
Running around town singin' your blues
You know you ain't goin' anywhere
You've always been a good friend of mine
But just keep saying farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well

Throw down your gun, you might shoot yourself
Or is that what you're tryin' to do?
Put up a fight you believe to be right
And one day the sun will shine through
You've always got somethin' to hide
Somethin' you just can't tell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well

But I know what you're wishing for
Love in a peaceful world
Love in a peaceful world
Love in a peaceful world
Love in a peaceful world

You've always been a good friend of mine
But you keep saying farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well
In the wishing well
In the wishing well
Everybody's got a dream and they take it to the wishing well
Everybody's got a dream, hah
Wishing well

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 mid 1970s and early 80s.

The band has gone through some famously nasty internal struggles, drug problems, illnesses and deaths, but continues to perform today (with a significantly altered line-up). Tommy Shaw, from Montgomery, AL, left but returned to the band. Drummer John Panozzo developed a debilitating drinking problem and ultimately died. Dennis DeYoung developed an acute case of photosensitivity, and he left the band. They fought among themselves for control of the band name. Glen Burtnik also left and returned, this time on bass, to replace Chuck Panozzo (John’s brother), who had also left the band. (whew.)

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