Electric Light Orchestra Lyrics

    ------ About the song Mister Kingdom performed by Electric Light Orchestra

The Eldorado album has always been my favorite ELO album. Mister Kingdom reminds me of a person on the brink of death, living on dreams of the better days of one's life...but instead of the gloomy sadness, it's as if they are on an exciting brink of a new adventure...shed the old world, and enter the new..."Cause once you're through with one world, there's another waiting there".

    ------ About the song Shangri-La performed by Electric Light Orchestra

I downloaded "A New World's Record" today; I had forgotten most of the songs on the album over the years, but after listening to it all morning, one can not help to (re)gain an appreciation for the genius of Jeff Lynn.
The harmonies are incredible and the strings are beautiful (especially with head-phones).
A re-found classic I'll be listening to for a long time to come!

    ------ About the song Love Is Like Oxygen performed by Electric Light Orchestra

Wow! A beautiful track. An amazing triptyph audio feast. Sadly missed this one growing up. Did not know The Sweet were accomplished musicians/composers. Unfortunately they will always be remembered for 'Ballroom Blitz' and being part of the 70s Glam scene. It's good to know a band like this can create music that evokes so much emotion & energy that you're lulled into a state where involuntary tears of pure joy can't help but overwhelm you. Besides ELO, Mike Oldfield seems the most likely source of inspiration. Still, a great song that epitomises the other side of punk & anti-establishment.

    ------ About the song Epilogue performed by Electric Light Orchestra

I've been trying to figure out what was said on the last part (And he arrives on this day of all days. . .) ever since I first listened to the original album on LP back when it was first sold. Thank you for clearing it up after 30+ years

    ------ About the song Hold On Tight performed by Electric Light Orchestra

After hearing this song several years ago in an automobile commercial, I was inspired to find out if it a commercial song by a legitimate artist/group and was surprised to find it was by ELO. I remember ELO but not this song when it was popular. It brought back memories of the days when songs were meaningful and most lyrics were decipherable. Way to go Jeff and ELO!

    ------ About the song Nightrider performed by Electric Light Orchestra

Sometime in the space of June 12 2011 to June 24, 2011, I became "Nightrider." It was an innocent enough game started by a friend, where we all chose nicknames and then he formally announced us as those names. After a moment of thought, I decided I was Nightrider. Yes, after this song, of course. I was already 10538 (as decided on February 1, 2011) but why not add to the collection of ELO nicknames? So somehow, I became the Nightrider, riding the night and searching for what is gone. I kept riding, searching, never finding what I was looking for. I showed my friend the song, and asked him if he could see why I was the Nightrider. Sadly, he too could see what I'd become: 10538 Nightrider, a fugitive from the self-designed prison inside my heart. But I'm happy as a fugitive - my quantum box isn't a good place to be. Love is more important than preserving yourself from heartbreak. Hurt is inevitable, but in the meantime, I can ride through the day and through the night, in search of the ever-elusive Sky......, who one day might turn around and smile back. 10538 Nightrider is alive and well, not planning on falling down to the rocks in the bay. Love is powerful, sustaining, and carries us all through the night but it's hard, painful, and full of potholes and pitfalls. However, the journey's well worth the scars. Sky......,if you can hear me, listen: you can't make the sun rise or set but you can dance in it's light all day. And when night comes, I'll be there, too, dancing in the forest under the moon.

    ------ About the song Wild West Hero performed by Electric Light Orchestra

..a wild west hero.. cant sing along with this song without crack and get watery eyes.. This is one of the songs that i without exeption love the most in my life.. Its Zebula Macahan, Indians and peolpe in need, and its sunset at the campfire with your beloved woman.

Sitting at my office doing boring stuff... i so whish i was..

WBR, Per N
Sweden

    ------ About the song Livin' Thing performed by Electric Light Orchestra

Song is about a man's love for a married woman. The "living thing" is a metaphor for the love they have created. Didnt you notice the female's lyrics "Im taken Im taken"? Or how about "and you and your sweet desire". Anti-abortion ? ... come on.

Beautiful song about a man being troubled by his decision to let a married woman go. Hence the lyrics :
"Ah so let her go don't start spoiling the show"

Thought this was settled years ago - writers always having their work twisted into some other's purposes.

    ------ About the song Livin' Thing performed by Electric Light Orchestra

I am not agreeing that this would be a song about anti-abortion. I am not sure what the songwriter truly meant with this song. But I absolutely don't see how the lines "Sailin' away on the crest of a wave
It's like magic
Oh rollin' and ridin',slippin' & sliding
It's magic" would refer to a pregnancy, abortion or anything to do with that. Why do some very religious people always have to project their religion on every song they hear? -_- Boring.
I think it's just about the joy of living and the love for this planet. Mostly I believe this because of a beautiful TV advertisment I have seen of WWF that fitted so well with this song. The earth is magic, if you learn how to look at it. It gives us everything and it would be a terrible thing to loose.

    ------ About the song I'm Alive performed by Electric Light Orchestra

You even don't realise what it it really means.
Despite of having lost two gentlemen out of ELO band already now, their music will ALWAYS remain alive. Jeff Lynne takes honorous place along such noble composers like Haendel Strauss Beethoven and other continuers of ancient Greeks culture. No matter which alphabet Jeff's been sold with his mother's milk.