The Colorado Ballroom is alive tonight

Masked people waitin' for midnight

The gins on the table, drinkable, neat

And theres blood and brains splattered on the Presidential Suite



And the ghosts and the screams of yesterdays schemes

Echo round the bathroom in two-seventeen

And the firehose lies innocent, ready to strike

And the dogman sits grinnin', ready to bite



And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights

Look at it shinin' (shining), they were calling them at nights

Sayin' hey, why dont you stay in the darkness and the dust

Why dont you stay awhile and shine... with us



Ooh, she lies in her limbo, she bathes and she waits

With hedge-lions guardin' the dark and frosted gates

Theres a little boy, screaming for help with his mind as he hides

'Cause somethins comin' down the corridor with jerky strides



And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights

And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights

And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights

And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights

Sayin' hey, why dont you stay in the darkness and the dust

Why dont you stay awhile and shine with us



Looks like hell, like hell, Jack Torrance knows it well

Look at it bubblin' in the boiler at the Overlook Hotel



Shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights

Look at it shining (shinin'), they were calling them at nights

Oh look at it shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights

Look at it shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights

Sayin' hey, why dont you stay in the darkness and in the dust

All you gotta do is die, and you'll shine with