Support RP
song: Serenade
artist: Steve Miller Band
album: Fly Like an Eagle
released: 1976-05length: 3:10
7.5
(1386)
Did you see the lights
As they fell all around you?
Did you hear the music
A serenade from the stars?

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

Whoah
Whoah
Ah

Did you feel the wind
As it blew all around you?
Did you feel the love
That was in the air?

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

Whoah
Whoah
Ah

The Sun comes up
And it shines all around you
You're lost in space
And the Earth is your own

Whoah
Whoah
Whoah
Whoah
Steve Miller Band

The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group had a string of mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band's contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams, among others. The band's Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. In 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Artist Website
(more from Wikipedia)
Creative Commons BY-SA license
newestoldest
Comments ( 59 )
Posted 5 years ago by johnrah:
There is something brilliant about this song. 
27
0
 [   ]
Posted 8 years ago by Webfoot:
dave701 wrote:
Some songs just dont do well. This is one of them. Fly like an eagle outta here.

 
Thanks for your cogent analysis. How could I have been so wrong?
13
0
 [   ]
Posted 9 years ago by mdfergy:
I've loved this song since the first time I ever heard it.
8
0
 [   ]
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude:
 thewiseking wrote:

awful



Is the way you feel about your mediocre comment?
7
0
 [   ]
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn:
Reminds me of the time I really listened to this song in its entirety for the first time, Christmas of '82 or so as I drove along the coast through the trippy and exquisite area of Rancho Palos Verdes known as Portuguese Bend with a good SoCal buzz on and looked longingly and lovingly out at Catalina from new angles and knew I just had to get myself over there, and so I did, the very next day...and I know a lot of it got overplayed especially in subsequent years and decades, but I did feel like the album Fly Like an Eagle, which was a tape my brother had left in the car, was an excellent soundtrack for that and so many of those early explorations, and I am happy to say that for me, this song still holds up well after all these years...
6
0
 [   ]
Posted 2 years ago by timmus:
I still remember the summer of 1976 when this album came out.  With songs like "Fly Like An Eagle", the visuals from "Logan's Run" which was out that summer, and the Mars Viking 1 landing, it felt like the space age was quickly unfolding.  Needless to say, the 46 years since then have been a massive disappointment.  At least we have video games, I guess.
4
0
 [   ]
Posted 3 years ago by eyke:
 BWGunner wrote:

Some songs just don't do well under streaming compression. 
 



hence the FLAC feed for those with the capacity. sounds wonderful!
4
0
 [   ]
Posted 2 years ago by jelgator:
Finally broke down and ordered this album.  I'm only 46 years late 😜
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 3 years ago by eileenomurphy:
Thanx RP!!
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 4 years ago by Matt_Maurer:
So much more to SMB than their commercial output .,. Listen and simply learn from it .,. Whoa Whoa ooooooooooo
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 4 years ago by markthecarp:
Nice to hear from someone who's not afraid to  play some Steve Miller..
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 8 years ago by Steely_D:
Flipmode wrote:
great transition from Turin Brakes Jackinabox to Serenade. Sounded like it was meant to be. 

 
Yep. Came to post something like this. NICE seg.
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 8 years ago by oldman:
justin4kick wrote:


We're with 3 now.

 
add 1 more
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 9 years ago by Weave:
May have been overplayed at the time but this song touched me in '77 and still does 38 years years later.
An outstanding track from an outstanding album.
3
0
 [   ]
Posted 2 years ago by roadie:
Thanks, RP. Probably been 30+ years since I've heard this. 
2
0
 [   ]
Posted 2 years ago by Zep:
I had no idea this was from Steve Miller v.2. 
2
0
 [   ]
Posted 3 years ago by bibutzu:
Remembering the good old times as a student, listening to my favorite radio station in Cluj - CD Radio - 
2
0
 [   ]
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude:
 johnrah wrote:

There is something brilliant about this song. 



You're right for sure, a solid 8!
2
0
 [   ]
Posted 4 years ago by chris32:
Best song Steve Miller ever made, IMHO.
2
0
 [   ]
Posted 5 years ago by milleronic:
7 -> 9
2
0
 [   ]
listen:
The Main Mix