Styx

Released: October 9, 1990

Songwriter: James Young Dennis DeYoung

Producer: Dennis DeYoung

[Verse 1]
She's got heavy equipment
She'll turn your head in an instant
She likes to rock and roll all night long
She's a one woman wrecking crew
Playing the part of an ingenue
Here in your personal tragedy
Veiled in a false innocence, so clever
The poison catalyst of your self destruction

[Chorus]
She's a homewrecker
Like a real steam roller
She's gonna drive you into the ground
She's a heartbreaker
A real mischief maker
You know she'll walk away and never look back

[Verse 2]
Just a near fatal attraction
Maybe a psychotic reaction
You just can't help yourself, right or wrong
Your tangled web of sin
Put you in the state you're in
Trapped by her passionate design
Sentenced to loneliness, forever
Destined for emptiness and down on your knees

[Chorus]
She's a homewrecker
Like a real steam roller
She's gonna drive you into the ground
She's a heartbreaker
A real mischief maker
You know she'll walk away and never, never, never look back

[Verse 3]
Just a near fatal attraction
Maybe a psychotic reaction
You just can't help yourself, right or wrong
Your mind's in disarray, left all alone to play
In the wreckage of your shattered dreams
But can you escape? No never
And you know there won't be any happy endings

[Chorus]
She's a homewrecker
Like a real steam roller
She's gonna drive you into the ground
She's a heartbreaker
A real mischief maker
You know she'll walk away and never never look back

[Chorus]
She's a homewrecker
Like a real steam roller
She's gonna twist your mind around
She's a heartbreaker
A real mischief maker
She's gonna drive you into the ground

Yeah
Yeah!

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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