Journey - Wheel In The Sky Lyrics

Journey Lyrics

"Wheel In The Sky"

Winter is here again oh Lord
Haven't been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little longer

Sent a letter on a long summer day
Made of silver, not of clay
Ooh, I've been runnin' down this dusty road

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

I've been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
Ooh, I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm stranded in the sleet and rain
Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again
The mornin' sun is risin', it's kissing the day

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

My, my, my, my, my
For tomorrow

Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Ooh, I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps me yearning
Ooh, I don't know, I don't know

Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Ooh, I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Ooh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know

Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps turnin'
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

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Writer(s): Neal Joseph Schon, Robert A. Fleischman, Diane T. Valory

"Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'" supposedly is a reference to Ezekiel 1:16 from The Bible, "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."

Diane Valory, the wife of bassist Ross Valory, wrote a poem called "Wheels In My Mind", which inspired this song.

When Steve Perry joined Journey, they had already had this song written with the lyrics by Robert Fleischman and the melody by guitarist Neal Schon. Perry explained, "They already had 'Wheel In The Sky' in the bag, but the way they had done it with Robert was different from how I was going to interpret it."

This was Journey's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100: it reached number 57 in 1978.

album: "Infinity" (1978)

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