Blue Oyster Cult - Searchin' For Celine Lyrics






I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
I've been searching, searching for her company
Find her where she's working
Find her where she hides
I know why she's cursing
She knows why I lie

I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
I've been searching, searching for her company
Find her where she's sleeping
I know why she's tired
I know why she's cursing
She knows why I lie

She said
Love is like a gun
And in the hands of someone
Like you I think it'd kill
But oh, what a thrill
Oh, what a thrill
No oh!

I've been talking, talking, talking in my sleep
I've been talking, talking, talking to Celine
Talking 'bout your love Your love
Talking 'bout your love Your love
Talking 'bout your love Your love
Do you know what I said?

I said
Love is like a gun
And in the hands of someone
Like you I think it'd kill
But oh, what a thrill
Oh, what a thrill
Oh oh!





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  1. H.... ....

    Unbeatable groove and solo on the outro. That's what mastery sounds like

  2. T.... H....

    Ok by what criteria do you say that this or any album is underrated? They didn’t play it at your high school dance? It didn’t sell like Madonna? Seriously please explain.

    T.... H....

    I think they say that because its a great album and nearly no one knows it.

    T.... H....

    Or listen to the album, most of the BÖC fans doesnt like Spectres or the new stuff, i dont know why.

  3. D.... S....

    Someone gets it! Those musicians I tell ya... always get it💯🎸💜

  4. A.... L....

    Spectres is becoming my favorite album

  5. A.... L....

    So great , this song

  6. k.... j....

    search no more 2054471572

  7. k.... j....

    got u Celine luv is like a gun .............ohhh what a thrill ...

  8. W.... H....

    I've been searching searching...






    For this song.

  9. j.... z....

    I've been searching searching
    Searching for Celine
    I've been searching searching
    Searching for Celine
    I know where she's working
    I know where she hides
    I know why she's cursing
    She knows why I lie
    I've been searching searching
    Searching for Celine
    I've been searching searching
    For her company
    I know where she's sleeping
    I know why she's tired
    I know why she's cursing
    She knows why I lie
    Love is like a gun
    In the hands of someone like you
    I think it'd kill
    But oh what a thrill
    Oh what a thrill
    I've been talking talking
    Talking in my sleep
    I've been talking talking
    Talking to Celine
    Talking 'bout your love
    Talking 'bout your love
    Talking 'bout your love
    Do you know what I said

  10. B.... ....

    I've been talking to Celine...And she says you're a dick.

  11. U.... ....

    I love the slap bass at the start

  12. G.... T....

    Years before Red Hot Chili Peppers we had Blue Oyster Cult....

    G.... T....

    Right?!! Thought I was the only one hearing some similarities in sound. Not in all tunes, but still... great rock bands, both of 'em.

    G.... T....

    Arkon.. Yup agreed.

  13. U.... ....

    This songs sounds very close to Billy Joel's song All For Lena at the start.Still a great song

  14. c.... ....

    https://www.google.pl/search?q=celine

  15. R.... ....

    This is an under the radar Cult tune.  I love all of it.  Two killer solos by Buck (in a wonderful, thick tone) and a powerhouse vocal by Eric. They did this at the Allen tribute in NYC in June 2016 and it was awesome.

  16. D.... ....

    I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
    I've been searching, searching for her company
    Find her where she's working
    Find her where she hides
    I know why she's cursing
    She knows why I lie

    I've been searching, searching, searching for Celine
    I've been searching, searching for her company
    Find her where she's sleeping
    I know why she's tired
    I know why she's cursing
    She knows why I lie

    She said
    Love is like a gun
    And in the hands of someone
    Like you I think it'd kill
    But oh, what a thrill
    Oh, what a thrill
    No oh!

    I've been talking, talking, talking in my sleep
    I've been talking, talking, talking to Celine
    Talking 'bout your love Your love
    Talking 'bout your love Your love
    Talking 'bout your love Your love
    Do you know what I said?

    I said
    Love is like a gun
    And in the hands of someone
    Like you I think it'd kill
    But oh, what a thrill
    Oh, what a thrill
    Oh oh!

  17. K.... B....

    I bought this album when it first came out in 1977. 40 year old album.

  18. B.... B....

    Ha this was my grandma's name! :)

  19. G.... R....

    Provavelmente o disco que ouvi na vida,bate uma puta nostalgia depois de ouvi depois de tanto tempo

  20. S.... ....

    still searchin for celine

    S.... ....

    Celine is a famous woman or what?

  21. G.... M....

    horned swoop bungo pony

  22. K.... ....

    I've been searching searching...






    For Waldo

    K.... ....

    Ten points to Hufflepuff

    K.... ....

    Did you find him?

    K.... ....

    Kurtis C.

    I did; found him in the popcorn :)

  23. k.... j....

    Celine   never   apearead!        Kenton +  Celine

  24. k.... ....

    Probably the most "alternative" sounding band from this era. They could've come from the 90s, even though they were around much earlier

    k.... ....

    70s Bro

    k.... ....

    +Montgomery Denzer - Yes, which are "much earlier" than the 90s. 😏

    k.... ....

    90s alt-rock is way different than this. This is 70s Disco with a hard BOC stamp on it, with the emphasis on 'hard.'

  25. k.... ....

    This song absolutely rips!

  26. 4.... ....

    I am thinking because of the mixed reviews on 'Spectres' that it was released as a 'concept' album possibly?? Regardless, it's stood the test of time and every time I listen to it, I am amazed at the guitar, piano, and just general ability this band had to to remain constant with their song writing and mastery as musicians. Blue Oyster Cult is not just some band or another rock band out there, they set the standard for how rock was supposed to sound.

    4.... ....

    Couldn't have said it better myself. They're a complete package with the musicianship AND the mystique. Gold standard indeed.

    4.... ....

    4girls. Spectres is easily one of BOC's finest albums. The songwriting, the themes, the musicianship, the vocal harmonies (Beach Boys influenced) it's fabulous.
    Not a concept album but the band were under massive pressure to find another "Reaper", (this was 77). They probably should have gone with I Love The Night (but didn't). Yes they set the standard, the high water mark for intelligent rock music, so if you were the competition back then the best thing to do would be pretend this music didn't exist .... if you can't beat it, ignore it.

    4.... ....

    ...this song simply made me cry tears of transference...a very beautiful piece of rock brilliance.

    4.... ....

    Ditto all that is said here.  They are matchless.

    4.... ....

    And having stood the test of time,
    The starry gale, the bloody tide,...

  27. 3.... ....

    Amazing guitar work as usual

  28. D.... S....

    The Coda may be Buck's tastiest sounding solo

  29. b.... c....

    de la bombe. verrrrrrrrrrrrry good.

  30. f.... ....

    AAAAAA Alchemist.....

    f.... ....

    except it isn't ALC it was DJ Khalil

  31. m.... ....

    R.I.P. ALLEN LANIER!!!!

  32. w.... ....

    Goodbye Allen

  33. M.... B....

    Another great Allen Lanier song. RIP Allen. You've been my hero as a member of the original BOC and your music will live on forever.

  34. B.... I....

    Very true, of course. RIP to Allen Lanier and Memory Eternal.

  35. T.... L....

    RIP Allen Lanier....

  36. b.... ....

    That song!!

  37. b.... ....

    Just the way it should be!

  38. b.... ....

    R.I.P. Allen Lanier!

  39. M.... ....

    DAT SOLO!!!!!

  40. i.... ....

    THAT BASS!!!

  41. L.... O....

    heard the fuckin bass

  42. M.... ....

    all said and done, that's an evidence

  43. A.... P....

    what u want.......the best band on the planet!!

  44. r.... ....

    This is all three of my kids' favorite song and their all-time favorite album. Great guitar work in this song.

    r.... ....

    You said it man. That is a blistering solo. It lifts off. It soars. It lands. Not many that do that nearly as well as the great BD.

  45. D.... ....

    2:21 Allen Lanier really shined on this song/album

  46. R.... H....

    My neice was named after this song!!!!

  47. A.... M....

    *Songwise that is*...to my "I Love the Night" comment on a previous post...It is a BadA** song!...

  48. A.... M....

    @veryverymakmak Yes...BOC is "Shooting Shark" rather than jumping it!!!...Awesome Song!...Greater Band!!!...AOF and Spectres are great...But give a listen to the 3 Black and White Albums...You will get a better understanding in what BOC is all about!...My fav Band growing up in the 70's...Yes I know I'm old...but age is just a number...BOC RULES!...

  49. A.... M....

    @marcabra You are correct...Very Underrated Album..."I Love the Night" is equally as great!...BOC RULES!!!...

  50. z.... ....

    @marcabra
    I go back and forth about this album and I have ever since it came out. One day I love it the next I just can't wrap my head around what they were trying to do. Nonetheless, the musicianship is flawless!

  51. e.... ....

    @marcabra so true

  52. e.... ....

    Sombody did a"reversed "interpretation of this song ,hillarious I think I'm bigger BOC fan now than ever, and thats saying something. I mean, I usedto play hookie just so I could listen to Agents a few times turned up to 11. I blame the Lasers. : )

  53. D.... ....

    Selene is also the heroine in the 'Underworld' films for a strangely coincidental vampire connection to this appropriately themed album.

  54. D.... ....

    very likely

  55. n.... ....

    @Drizzlerman

    That's what I always thought, because of the "talking in my sleep" thing. Seline put her shepheard to sleep, right ?

  56. D.... ....

    Also this song could be about the moon goddess Selene

    D.... ....

    CELINE'S LAWS
    by Hagbard Celine

    As every thinking person has noticed, our national life has become increasingly weird and surrealistic. The waiting lines at banks and post offices are growing longer all the time, even though demographers tell us US population is no longer rising. The street signs more often than not say WALK on the red and DON'T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the weekends. Nobody has been able to explain the cattle mutilations yet. Every survey shows that the price of consumer goods, the number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of THE GONG SHOW are ominously accelerating.

    I believe I have found the explanation these distressing trends. Needless to say, I cannot present, in a short article, all the evidence which I have accumulated in three decades of careful metasociological research; that will have to await the publication of my three-volume study, "Why Everybody Is Going Bonkers." Here I can only mention the thousands of depth interviews, the innumerable flowcharts and helix-matrix equations, the vast files of computer readouts, the I CHING divinations, and other rigorous scientific techniques used in developing what I modestly call Celine's Laws of Chaos,

    First Law: National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.

    Reflecting the paranoia of the Cold War, Celine's First Law focuses around the common idea that to have national security, one must create a secret police. Since internal revolutionaries and external foes would make the secret police a prime target for infiltration, and because the secret police would by necessity have vast powers to blackmail and intimidate other members of the government, another higher set of secret police must be created to monitor the secret police. And an even higher set of secret police must then be created to monitor the higher order of secret police. Repeat ad nauseam.

    This seemingly infinite regress goes on until every person in the country is spying on another, or "the funding runs out." And since this paranoid and self monitoring situation inherently makes targets of a nation's own citizens, the average person in the nation is more threatened by the massive secret police complex than by whatever foe they were seeking to protect themselves from. Wilson points out that the Soviet Union, which suffered from this in spades, got to the point that it was terrified of painters and poets who could do little harm to them in reality.

    At the same time, given the limitation of funding and scale, the perfect security state never truly emerges, leaving the populace still vulnerable from the original threat while also being threatened by the vast and Orwellian secret police.


    Second Law: Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.

    Wilson uses the eye in the pyramid as a symbol of the dysfunction of hierarchies. Every level except the top is blind, but the eye can see only one way.

    Wilson rephrases this himself many times as "communication occurs only between equals." Celine calls this law "a simple statement of the obvious" and refers to the fact that everyone who labors under an authority figure tends to lie to and flatter that authority figure in order to protect themselves either from violence or from deprivation of security (such as losing one's job). In essence, it is usually more in the interests of any worker to tell his boss what he wants to hear, not what is true.

    In any hierarchy, every level below the highest carries a subtle burden to see the world in the way their superiors expect it to be seen and to provide feedback to their superiors that their superiors want to hear. In the end, any hierarchical organization supports what its leaders already think is true more than it challenges them to think differently. The levels below the leaders are more interested in keeping their jobs than telling the truth.

    Wilson, in Prometheus Rising, uses the example of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Hoover saw communist infiltrators and spies everywhere, and he told his agents to hunt them down. Therefore, FBI agents began seeing and interpreting everything they could as parts of the communist conspiracy. Some even went as far as framing people as communists, making largely baseless arrests and doing everything they could to satisfy Hoover's need to find and drive out the communist conspiracy. The problem is, such a conspiracy never existed in any form. Hoover thought it did, but any agent who dared point out the lack of evidence to Hoover would be at best denied promotions, and at worst labeled a communist himself and lose his job. Any agent who knew the truth would be very careful to hide the fact.

    In the end, Celine states, any hierarchy acts more to conceal the truth from its leaders than it serves to find the truth.


    Celine's Third Law: An honest politician is a national calamity.

    Citing Lenin and his successors as examples, Wilson argues that the most tyrannical and brutal regimes in history were created by honest politicians who believed in a good cause.

    Celine recognizes that the third law seems preposterous from the beginning. While a dishonest politician is interested only in bettering his own lot through abusing the public trust, an honest politician is far more dangerous since he is honestly interested in bettering society through political action, and that means writing and implementing more and more laws.

    Celine argues that creating more laws simply creates more criminals. Laws inherently restrict individual freedom, and the explosive rate at which laws are being created means that every citizen in the course of his daily life does not have the research capacity to not violate at least one of the plethora of laws. It is only through honest politicians trying to change the world through laws that true tyranny can come into being through excessive legislation.

    Corrupt politicians simply line their own pockets. Honest idealist politicians cripple the people's freedom through enormous amounts of laws. So corrupt politicians are preferable according to Celine.

    Celine's laws
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Celine's Laws are a series of three laws regarding government and social interaction attributed to the fictional character Hagbard Celine from Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy. Celine, a gentleman anarchist, serves as a mouthpiece for Wilson's libertarian, anarchist and sometimes completely uncategorizable ideas about the nature of mankind. Celine's Laws are outlined in the trilogy by a manifesto titled Never Whistle While You're Pissing. Wilson later goes on to elaborate on the laws in his nonfiction book, Prometheus Rising, as being inherent consequences of average human psychology.

    A piece entitled Celine's Laws appears in Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminati Papers, which features articles written by Wilson under the guise of many of his characters from the Illuminatus! Trilogy alongside interviews with the author himself. One article pulls from another, as well as from the original Trilogy.

    Celine, in his manifesto, recognizes these are generalities, but also says that their basic principles can be used to find the source of every great decline and fall of nations, and goes on to claim they are as universal as Newton's Laws in applying to everything.

  57. j.... ....

    With this song, this is when I finally realized BOC had jumped the shark.

  58. B.... I....

    Has Eric found Celine yet, btw?? lol

  59. a.... ....

    Good observation. Spectres was heavy on piano, as was Agents of Fortune really. If you go back to the first 3 albums, Lanier's piano was involved quite a bit, less so on Tyranny and Mutation perhaps.

    I much preferred the heavy piano use over the dated synth sounds that became so high profile on Fire..Origin and Revolution by Night. By doing that BOC lost some of it's uniqueness as everybody starting using synths, but not everyone could utilize piano in a hard rock setting like BOC.

  60. B.... I....

    Very heavy on the piano, this whole album.

  61. O.... ....

    Catchy song.