Stone Cold

Album: Straight Between The Eyes (1982)
Charted: 34 40
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  • Every night I have the same old dream
    'Bout you and me and what's in between
    So many changes, so many lies
    Try to run, try to hide
    From everything that I feel inside
    But I can't escape you or your frozen eyes

    Searching in the darkness
    Fading out of sight
    Love was here and gone like a thief in the night
    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    Stone cold
    Can't break away from your spell

    Another dark and empty night
    If I was wrong, I want to make it right
    But you are so distant, so far away
    Your words like ice fall on the ground
    Breaking the silence without a sound
    Oh, familiar strangers with nothing to say

    Searching in the darkness
    Fading out of sight
    Love was here and gone like a thief in the night
    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    Stone cold, yeah
    I can't break away from your spell
    You leave me stone cold

    Searching in the darkness
    Fading out of sight
    Love was here and gone like a thief in the night
    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    You're stone cold, yeah
    I can't break away from your spell

    Stone cold, baby
    I thought I knew you so well
    You're stone cold, ice cold
    Can't break away from your spell

    You put me in the deep freeze
    Oh baby, don't you leave me
    Stone cold, you're leavin' me cold (stone cold)
    Can't break away from your spell
    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    Stone cold
    Can't break away from your spell

    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    Stone cold
    Can't break away from your spell
    Stone cold
    And I thought I knew you so well
    Stone cold Writer/s: Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger David Glover
    Publisher: JOLT PRODUCTIONS INC, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Dave Schacht from IlThis is certainly NOT Rainbow's most popular track in The US! It gets completely ignored by classic rock radio stations in favor of "Since You Been Gone" which, frankiy, I'm tired of hearing. Once in awhile, you might also hear "Man On the Silver Mountain", or "Street of Dreams", but you barely hear "Stone Cold" which I think is a disgrace since it was Rainbow's only US Top Forty hit. They're one of the few artists whose lone hit seldom gets played on classic rock radio stations.
  • Don from Sevierville, TnI think this resembles the Foreigner song, Waiting for a Girl Like You (which Joe Lynn Turner would later cover on a solo album). I heard that Ronnie James Dio called the Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow Foreigner Jr.
  • Rusputtin from Atlanta, GaMy introduction to Rainbow was thru Stone Cold...killer track!
  • Jim from Long Beach, CaThis song is about a cold bitch.
  • Tye from Guthrie, OkAbout a girl who just has no feelings toward you/doesn't care. Empty... no love for you in her heart i dunno..
  • Damar from Pittsburgh, PaThe song's video was directed by Edd Griles who would later did some classic videos from Huey Lewis and Cyndi Lauper.
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