Curiosity
The young and the free
There for all to see
Entranced
Burned by the flame
Have your senses taken leave
Into the fire of true belief
It's the orgy of the free

It was at first as
If they were shadows
Shimmering visions
By the light of the dancing flame
Bodies in motion
The sound of the ocean
Came into vision
On the night of the dancing flame

What of your own free will
Bodies are writhing still
There in the moonlight
With my head up help high
Wish I could keep on walking by
But I
Find myself drawn to you
I let you do what you want to do
You had your wicked way
There on the site of the dancing flame

It was at first as
If they were shadows
Shimmering visions
By the light of the dancing flame
Bodies in motion
The sound of the ocean
Came into vision
On the night of the dancing flame

To dance around the fire
On the night of the dancing flame
To make the flame grow higher
In the light of the dancing flame

To dance around the fire
On the night of the dancing flame
To make the flame grow higher
In the light of the dancing flame

On that starry night
Lost my sense of time
I don't know how I
Got my fingers burned
Maybe I got too close
To the light of the
(To the)
To the light of the
(To the)
To the light of the light of the dancing flame
(To the)
To the light of the
(To the)
To the light of the
(To the)
To the light of the dancing flame
(To the)


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    The song is literally about what the lyrics say. An orgy at the beach. From a magazine interview:

    Roisin wrote ‘Night Of The Dancing Flame’ after a trip to Ibiza, “I shouldn’t mention Ibiza again but will do!” she laughs off, almost ashamedly. “We were on a beach in Northern Ibiza, the name escapes me right now, but there’s this hippee festival every full moon in the summer. It was quite sleazy actually.” “There were all these vaseline-clad girls dancing round a fire and these sleazy guru-like older men playing bongos and watching on. Which is where the line, The orgy of the free, comes from. It’s suppose to be ironic because the observation was that the girls were danc- ing through this idea of freedom, but they weren’t really free at all. It was an amazing thing to see, though - the image of heavily vaselined-skin against the firelight. And then they put a circular lamp/sheet thing around the girls and the fire so you could only see the shadows dancing. Visually, it was an incredible feast but still a bit distressing.”

    Splendido90on August 15, 2023   Link

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