In the heart
Of the night
When it's dark
In the lights
I heard the loudest noise
A gunshot on the floor
Ohhhh Ohhhhh
I looked down
And my shirt's turning red
I'm spinning around
Felt her lips on my neck
And her voice in my ear
Like I missed you
Want you tonight
Chorus:
Straight through my heart
A single bullet got me
I can't stop the bleeding
Ohhhh
Straight through my heart
She aimed and she shot me
I just can't believe it
Ohhhh
No I can't resist
And I can't be hit
I just can't escape this love
Straight through my heart
Soldier down(my heart)
Soldier down(my heart)
Thought I moved
More than on
Thought I could
Fool her charm
I really wanna go
But I can't leave her alone
Ohhhh ohhhh
Hear the sound
Of a love so loud
I just can't, I just can't
Ignore this feeling
Said she missed me
And she wants me
Wants me tonight
Chorus
In the heart
Of the night
When its dark
In the lights
I heard the loudest noise
A gunshot on the floor
oh oh
Chorus:
Straight through my heart
A single bullet got me
I can't stop the bleeding
Ohhhh
Straight through my heart (Solider down, solider down)
She aimed and she shot me
I just can't believe it
Ohhhh
No I can't resist (I can't resist)
And I can't be hit (No, I can't)
I just can't escape this love
Straight through my heart
Soldier down(my heart)
Soldier down(my heart)
Oh oh,
Straight through my heart
soldier down(my heart), solider down (my heart)
my heart, my heart
Straight through my heart
soldier down(my heart), solider down (my heart)
oh oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
Concept for the Video
The Backstreet Boys are dead... and loving it! But don't get too excited, haters. They're just portraying the living dead in their new video, for "Straight Through My Heart" (the first single from their forthcoming album, This is Us, due Oct. 6). The startlingly original theme of the video is... vampirism. Sure, it's risky, tying your comeback to a concept this novel, this inventive, this untested. But who knows, it could just catch on.
The action takes place in a dimly lit nightclub we later learn is buried beneath the concrete basin of the L.A. River. But let's not jump ahead. A blankly sinister brunette, dressed to kill, enters the club and sets her sights on a comely blonde. Faster than you can say " The Hunger with no nude scenes," there is some mildly sapphic dancing going on between our female leads. While the blonde victim is distracted by AJ McLean's hairline, and wondering what the heck ever happened to Kevin Richardson, Vampira bares her fangs and heads for the other gal's neck, right in the middle of the dance floor. There won't be blood, though, and the blonde apparently doesn't even notice that she's been attacked. Such is the transfixing power of the Boys' modest choreography!
But this PG-rated bloodlust has not gone unnoticed by the Boys, who decide to leave the stage and destroy Elvira. At last, time for some action, right? Surely they will drive a stake straight through her heart? Or the silver bullet actually mentioned in the lyrics? Nope. A burst of daylight destroys the fanged temptress, which is just what you get for not checking your watch at an all-night Backstreet Boys rave. The heroic quartet quickly reveal themselves to be vampires, too, albeit bloodsuckers who are impervious to daylight, because the director wanted a cool climactic shot of them walking down that concrete riverbed. (If only it ended with them getting run over by famous L.A. River racer Danny Zuko.)