Styx - Don't Let It End (Reprise) Lyrics

Great song, just not for the concept.

I salute you, Styx with DDY. I'm glad you put out so many albums and I saw you live.

Love Styx but just listened to this album all the way through since probably early 1980s when I originally bought it. It's just not a good album. Uninspired. Kind of a mess. Knowing what fans know now about the making of this album and the band history, it makes it clear.

This album sucked!

i wanted it to be 5;45

Does anyone else get visions of Meatloaf when they hear this?

Years since I sat thru that whole album. Great memories of big hair days

the sticks

I'm sorry that JY and Tommy clashed with Dennis the way they did. I love the music they made in this version of Styx.

Both sides are kind of guilty. This album had many good songs, but was not the best album they ever did. Styx was at their best when the songs were evenly inspired between James, Tommy, and Dennis. When they started doing the concept albums Tommy and James were being roped into what Dennis wanted and he wasn't always right (although he was right often). Tommy finally snapped when they were on tour for this album and a fan attacked him onstage. Trying to turn the album tour into a stage play with the band members acting as characters was a bad idea.

Great song and album!
Dennis DeYoung is one of the greatest singers and songwriters, in our opinion!
xoxo
The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)

@decimated550 If I'm remembering correctly, the "r" in "modren" was actually printed backwards in the original lyric sheet. [Source: the first ever cassette tape I ever bought. EVAR. The year it came out... oh my!]

You are remembering correctly.

why does it let u play this but not the other "don't let it end" on this album?

Hence, if the Japanese "owned" the US, it kind of makes sense that certain quirks of their pronunciation of our language would bleed over Stateside over the course of time.

I think the reason he pronounces the word that way is because I think they were trying to convey a future where the entire United States had indeed been bought by the Japanese (as was being predicted by some pundits during the time the album was made). Hence, the Japanese lyrics in Mr Roboto, for instance. That's actually how a Japanese person would pronounce the word "modern", because they have difficulty with the "r" sound, so words like that are difficult for them to say "correctly".

That's because it's used in the UK, not the US. If you spend much time watching British TV or movies, you'll hear it occasionally, along with other words that are pronounced and/or spelled differently than they are in the US. And that doesn't even take into account all the words that are different altogether between the two countries, such as lift (elevator), lorry (truck), petrol (gasoline), etc.

Well, actually, in the UK "disorientated" is the correct spelling and pronunciation. It's only in the US where it's "disoriented".

listen for it..i've heard it in movies, even documentary narration.

Really? I have never heard anyone use the word "disorientated" before.

It's a mispronunciation like "disorientated" when it should be disoriented. Or maybe that way of saying it spits out easier while singing

Actually, I think DeYoung was just trying to sound more sophisticated than he was by making up a pronunciation for a common work.

Long Live Rock 'N' Roll, Hard Rock, Grunge, Heavy Metal, N More!

this song is amazing...and way too short.

Glorious...

i am the "modren" man. Styx can't spell!

J/k, this song blew me up 15 years ago the moment i heard it

very true they sure did!

Never let the reign of Rock and Roll end!

We need to make a music video out of this!