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!
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
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
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
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