Song Lyric Sunday: Conflagration!

Well it’s Sunday again and time for Song Lyric Sunday. Our host Jim Adams has again been assisted by Nancy at The Scillian Storyteller. This week, April 14, 2024 – Songs with the lyrics “hot, burning, fire or blazing” are our prompt.

So I have chosen three songs this week, firstly I thought of the Prodigy and Firestarter but I decided well that’s more my lads era so I went for three of my favourites. Starting with Arthur Brown who I saw at Reading festival when I was unbelievably young…. Yes he wore his famous firey headdress!

Fire” is a 1968 song written by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. Performed by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band’s debut album, also called The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The single became a transatlantic hit, reaching number one in the UK and Canada and number two in the United States, while hitting the top 10 in markets across Europe.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown had been performing the song “Fire” in their live act to highly favorable audience response. When it came time to record an album, Arthur Brown, the band’s singer, wanted to record The Fire Suite, a rock opera centered around the song “Fire”, which would have focused on the horrors of Hell. Kit Lambert, Brown’s manager and the album’s producer, dissuaded him against the uncommercial original concept. As a compromise, side A of the vinyl record featured a suite of songs written as part of the album’s original concept, including “Fire”, while side B featured unrelated songs.

During live performances and in the black and white promotional television clip, Brown performed the song wearing a burning helmet. The helmet was improvised with a leather skull cap onto which was bolted a metal dish that held lighter fluid or petrol. As the cap was not insulated, the heat from the burning fuel quickly conducted through the fixing bolt to the top of Brown’s head, causing him considerable pain. Brown claims that the flames got up to 4 feet high and at one point caught fire to his clothes during a performance. All information from Wikipedia it is also worth visiting Wiki to read about the recording of their Album Fire it is really interesting!

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I am the god of hellfire and I bring you

Fire, I’ll take you to burn
Fire, I’ll take you to learn
I’ll see you burn

You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it’s going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind
Now’s your time, burn your mind
You’re falling far, too far behind
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
You’re gonna burn

Fire, to destroy all you’ve done
Fire, to end all you’ve become
I’ll feel you burn

You’ve been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind
Now’s your time, burn your mind
You’re falling far, too far behind
Oooh

Fire, I’ll take you to burn
Fire, I’ll take you to learn
You’re gonna burn
You’re gonna burn
You’re gonna burn, burn, burn, burn,
Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn

Fire, I’ll take you to burn
Fire, I’ll take you to learn
Fire, I’ll take you to bed
Fire, I’ll take you, fire

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Liam Paul Paris Howlett / Peter Ker / Vincent Crane / Frederick Michael Joseph Nelson / Arthur Brown / Michael Finesilver / Pablo Gad

Fire lyrics © Bucks Music Group Limited, Onward Music Ltd, Just Isn’t Music Ltd

Next we move forward to 2013 and the Gorgeous and talented James Blunt. Yup I said gorgeous and talented James Blunt.

“Bonfire Heart” is the lead single from British singer-songwriter James Blunt‘s fourth studio album, Moon Landing (2013). The song was written by Blunt and OneRepublic‘s lead singer Ryan Tedder, with whom Blunt had previously written the single “Stay the Night“. Imformation Wiki

Your mouth is a revolver firing bullets in the sky
Your love is like a soldier, loyal ’til you die
And I’ve been looking at the stars for a long, long time
I’ve been putting out fires all my life
Everybody wants a flame, they don’t want to get burned
And today is our turn

Days like these lead to
Nights like this lead to
Love like ours
You light the spark in my bonfire heart
People like us, we don’t
Need that much just someone that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts

This world is getting colder, strangers passing by
No one offers you a shoulder, no one looks you in the eye
But I’ve been looking at you for a long, long time
Just tryna break through, tryna make you mine
Everybody wants a flame, they don’t want to get burned
Well, today is our turn

Days like these lead to
Nights like this lead to
Love like ours
You light the spark in my bonfire heart
People like us, we don’t
Need that much just someone that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts

Our bonfire hearts
Our bonfire hearts
Our bonfire hearts
You light the spark

People like us, we don’t
Need that much just someone that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts

Days like these lead to
Nights like this lead to
Love like ours
You light the spark in my bonfire heart
People like us we don’t
Need that much just someone that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts
Our bonfire hearts

Days like these lead to
Nights like this lead to
Love like ours
You light the spark in my bonfire heart
People like us, we don’t
Need that much just someone that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: James Hillier Blount / Ryan B. Tedder

Bonfire Heart lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Back again to 2009 and Bat for lashes and Daniel . Lots of references to fire in the lyrics.

“Daniel” is a song by English recording artist Bat for Lashes, from her second studio album, Two Suns. It is her best-selling single to date, selling over 46,000 copies worldwide. The song was announced as the lead single from Two Suns in January 2009, then released as a digital download single on 1 March 2009, and as a 7″ vinyl single on 6 April 2009. The track was written by Natasha Khan and produced by David Kosten, as with all tracks on the album. Ira Wolf Tuton from Yeasayer provided the bass lines for the song and Khan did the rest of the instrumentation herself. More information at Wiki

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Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We’ll never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in the golden-blue
Car, you took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that’s lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths, the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm

And as my house spun ’round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again, for home again

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that’s lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that’s lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

Source: Musixmatch

written by Natasha Khan.

Bonus track our Sam singing Set fire to the rain because I love him .

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE 💜💜💜