"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from their 1976 album, Agents of Fortune. The song, written and sung by the band's lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself.
Released as an edited single, the song was Blue Öyster Cult's biggest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. Additionally, critical reception was mainly positive and, in 2004, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 405 on the Rolling Stone list of the top 500 songs of all time.
The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife. He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics. (Thanks to Wiki).
Don't Fear The Reaper...
And by Special Request.....😉
Don't Fear The Reaper...(a little more Cowbell)
The inspiration for this cache came as I was walking around the Graveyard of St Canice's Cathedral. On finding the statue below, I read the verse and straight away thought of the song. The cache is not far from the Cherub but not in the church grounds. However the gate is nearby and a nice easy Earth Cache can be claimed in the graveyard also: Kilkenny Marble.
NOTE - There is no need to put your hands in any of the wall recesses that are around GZ. There is a problem with drug dealing in this area so please use you eyes instead of your hands to search. The cache is magnetic and is hidden in plain sight.
Don't Fear The Reaper