Styx

Songwriter: Dennis DeYoung

Producer: John Ryan (Producer) Bill Traut

Bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
Bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
Bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
Bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada da

Welcome my friends
To a place that may seem
Most disturbing
Quite unnerving

Lend me your dreams
And we'll add what we need
To be free
Terminally

We'll fly to a spot
Where I know there is not
Any sorrow
No tomorrow

People just laugh
Cause they know how it feels
To have loved
And be loved

Don't you worry
Ain't no need to hurry
All you really need
Is love

Bah bah bah bah bah

Now you may say
Tell me more of this place
So inviting
And exciting

Here and above
Children love without doubt
And can be
They can be

Listen my friends
Carefully to direction
To get there
And you know where

Love is the place
Skewed to matter and space
For us all
For us all

Don't you worry
Ain't no need to hurry
All you really need
Is love, love, love

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.)

more tracks from the album

Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology

From the albums

Styx II (1973)
Best of Styx (1977)
Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology (2004)

Styx popular songs

You Need LoveStyx

Styx

Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology