Lyric discussion by SpruCy 

Cover art for Burnin' For You lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

A guy who drowns his heartaches and sorrows with all sorts of debauchery even though he's still very much in love with some one who walked away...

@xshufflemuffin that would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about. The normal life, that love of that regular "girl next door" who could never bear the continuous journeying of this hellbound Path, the abandonment of something more beautiful and genuine than anything that will ever be discovered on the Great Adventure ensuing from this Faustian agreement that in the end will leave the author burning for eternity