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[Lyrics]
The job is done and I go out
Another boring day
I leave it all behind me now
So many worlds away

I meet my girl, she's dressed to kill
And all we gonna do
Is walk around to catch the thrill
On streets we call the zoo

We eat the night, we drink the time
Make our dreams come true
And hungry eyes are passing by
On streets we call the zoo

We eat the night, we drink the time
Make our dreams come true
And hungry eyes are passing by
On streets we call the zoo

Enjoy the zoo
And walk down 42nd Street
You Gonna be excited too
And you will feel the heat

We eat the night, we drink the time
Make our dreams come true
And hungry eyes are passing by
On streets we call the zoo

We eat the night, we drink the time
Make our dreams come true
And hungry eyes are passing by
On streets we call the zoo

"The Zoo" was released on the Scorpion's seventh studio album, Animal Magnetism, in late winter 1980. I was a huge fan of both UFO and Scorpions, in part but certainly not totally, due to Micheal Schenker's guitar work with both bands. The year before on their previous album (Lovedrive), it was both disappointing and exciting to hear Michael back with Scorpions....his work with UFO was just out of this world, but nevertheless Lovedrive was such an amazing guitar album, due in huge part to the work of the three lead guitarists (also Rudolph Schenker and Matthias Jabs), and I remember anticipating the Scorpions next album so we could hear more of Micheal's tasty, blistering guitar work. Of course, it didn't quite turn out that way, as Micheal didn't return for Animal Magnetism. However, luckily both his brother Rudolph and Matthias Jabs remained on board and while it may not be quite the masterpiece of guitar rock that Lovedrive was, it's still an amazing album.

(This section is for those few people that might be interested in hearing about the video process). "The Zoo" is the second Scorpions video I've made, and the first one "Lady Starlight" was also a track from the Animal Magnetism album. This video started out extremely structured and came very easy....it was all centered around of course that driving riff, the entire video was made up of the amazing timplapse photography (http://www.youtube.com/user/josephlodato/videos) the video was synced up very nicely with the tune, and I was surprised and happy to find that it seemed that this video would be completed and uploaded in less than maybe 4 hours!

Then after uploading a version and looking at it, I felt the image was too restrictive and became too repetitious. I brought in a couple of new images and effects, then more effects until the repetition issue was reduced but I began going too far the other direction. Now the video is not nearly as synced (remnants of the previous syncs are now out of place), but I think it's a better balance. So what started off simple turned out to be quite a challenge....mainly because I tried (and then jettisoned) so many things to find that balance. I've only uploaded and then taken a video down maybe once or twice in the past, and in those cases it was due to mistakes and was just once....this is actually the fourth upload for this one.....and I'm not entirely sure I shouldn't have gone with one of the other three! :-)

Anyway....the video might have changed many times but the one thing that did not was that incredible time-lapse footage that was always the highlight of the video. HUGE thanks to Joseph Lodato and Owl Productions for allowing me to use the awesome time-lapse to make my music vid! Check out the full video at Owl Productions/Joseph Lodato Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/josephlodato

Hope you enjoy the effort!