Man On The Silver Mountain Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Man on the Silver Mountain Album: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975)
by Rainbow

"Man on the Silver Mountain" is the debut single by Rainbow and the first track of their debut album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, written by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and vocalist Ronnie James Dio.

After Dio's death, Rob Halford performed a cover of the song and said it "captures the things I personally love in metal tracks".

In a 1975 radio interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio, Dio said he would allow Ritchie to give the story behind “Man On The Silver Mountain,” “but you’d get completely lost in his explanation, so I’ll do it for you.” I don’t think Dio was trying to be a jerk. The song really is deep and difficult to grasp.

According to LastFM, “It is, he (Dio) said, a semi-religious song, the man on the silver mountain is a kind of God figure everyone is crying out to.” The song’s writing credits are shared by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio.

Man On The Silver Mountain
Rainbow
Written by: Ronnie James Dio, Richard Blackmore
Album: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Released: 1975

I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel I can roll I can feel
And you can't stop me turnin'
'Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun I can move I can run
But you'll never stop me burnin'

Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the day, I'm the day I can show you the way
And look I'm right beside you
I'm the night, I'm the night I'm the dark and the light
With eyes that see inside you

Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screamin' my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

Come down with fire
And lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again

I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain
Well I can help you, you know I can
I'm the man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain

Just look at me and listen
I'm the man, the man give you my hand
I'm the man on the silver mountain

Coming down with fire
I'll lift your spirit higher
I'm the man on the mountain
The man on the silver mountain

I'm the night, the light the black and the white
The man on the silver mountain
I'm the man on the silver mountain