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Fire and the Thud Lyrics
You showed me my tomorrow
Beside a box of matches
A welcome threatening stir
My hopes of being stolen
Might just ring true
Depends who you prefer
But if it's true you're gonna run away
Tell me where
I'll meet you there
Am I snapping the excitement
If I pack away the laughter
And tell you how it feels
And does burden come to meet ya
If I've questions of the feature that runs on your dream wheel
The day after you stole my heart,
Everything I touched told me it would be better shared with you
And you're hiding in my soup
And the book reveals your face
And there's a splashing in my eyelids
The concentration continually breaks
I did request the mark you cast
Didn't heal as fast
I hear your voice in silences
Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?
And the jostling crowd
You're not allowed to tell the truth
And the photo booth's a liar
And the sharpened explanations
But there's no screaming reason to inquire
I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes
With things they never see if it smacks in their temples
Beside a box of matches
A welcome threatening stir
Might just ring true
Depends who you prefer
Tell me where
I'll meet you there
If I pack away the laughter
And tell you how it feels
If I've questions of the feature that runs on your dream wheel
Everything I touched told me it would be better shared with you
And the book reveals your face
And there's a splashing in my eyelids
The concentration continually breaks
Didn't heal as fast
I hear your voice in silences
Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?
You're not allowed to tell the truth
And the photo booth's a liar
And the sharpened explanations
I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes
With things they never see if it smacks in their temples
Song Info
Submitted by
,tan-x On Dec 09, 2007
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Totally about obsession and a kind of love at first sight. Should stay away from the girl but ends up falling for her anyway and has a tough time getting over her. Totally fitting to be followed by Cornerstone.
She is the fire & he is the thud... "if it's true you're gonna run away, tell me where, I'll meet you there" "will the teasing ( the movement, the natural activity and changes of her life) of the FIRE be followed by the THUD? ( thud as what follows the fire/her.. always)"
The rest is pretty obvious, but it is deep.. I love the last lines! Full of passion! This song is all about love! :)
I'm not certain about all of those, being a soft southener I don't find Alex perfectly easy to understand, and there's some quickly spoken bits. I've gone through a few times though, great song.
It was written about Alex's girlfriend, Alexa Chung moving to NYC for her tv show and Alex's decision to go with her.
This is my favourite AM song. It seems very personal. There can't be many love songs that don't mention the word 'love'. 'I hear your voice in silences' is a great thing to write in a valentine card. Unless you're giving it to a noisy bitch! :-)
Nice song its a bit different to their other stuff but still good
love the song, trippy kinda feel to it....like the acoustic too.
Good song about tripping.
I've had the demo for about a year now and i didn't really like it but the final version is much more enjoyable, the production really makes it that much better
are the last 4 lines referred to ... let it be called "what they say"?.
I mean it's like he's asked "why do you do this?", "why do you come with her?" and he thinks the reason is pretty obvious - he loves her(I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes with things they'd never see if it smacks them in their temples) and what thud is this thud? I understood the whole thing as a metaphore of (her dream)moviemaking (feature, roll, reel, snapping)