The Gun Club - Secret Fires

The last wonderful track from The Las Vegas Story:

Touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
They that are behind me
are there against the moon.

Remember when we used to ride
underneath power lines
in the inferno valley
when your father was alive

We worked for days and years
Through the dust and the heat.
I came around to see you
On highway-burning feet.

I spent my days at the mill,
I came home and cared for you
In the year that we lived in secret fires

I took my razor blade
I laid Ruben in the shade
And I heard the radio moan

I took my place in the hills
jagged with secret fires
I called you through the valley
down among the wires

With dust upon my eyes
came the first day of the year
I saw the house where no one lived
On a black land and under red sky
You washed my hair and body
Beside (?) a firelight

so, touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
we struggled
the year we lived in secret fire


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[exeuroweenie]

Thanks so much for posting this.Unfortunately this wasn't included in my copy of Las Vegas Story.Such a stunning song,on a level with Breaking Hands.

[MichaelDemimonde]

No problem, it's a great song; I think Secret Fires was included only on the CD re-release of The Las Vegas Story some time in the 1990s, so you must have an early copy - treasure it!

[exeuroweenie]

Hah,I got the album when it was released in '84.I still have my hearing,but it still makes me feel old.

[MichaelDemimonde]

Impressive, right on it back then - don't worry, there's always someone older somewhere...

[SpiegleinSpieglein]

Since I discovered this song, I heard it every day several times. It just doesn't get out of my head!

But: the lyrics aren't quite right - has anybody an idea where I can get the proper ones?

Thanx though anyway for posting it - great!

[MichaelDemimonde]

You're quite right - I admit I copied them from another site without checking. I've transcribed them myself now, should be about right.

[80Notatall]

Secret fires...perfect!

[exeuroweenie]

@loudenblogger You're so right.Happily,it'll always be a privelege that feels current.

[gillmengreen]

this is Keith Morris best friend Jeffery Lee Pierce

[312chicagoadam]

Perfect.

[fatalblades]

this was on the cassette issue of Las Vegas Story..

[9Syria]

Beautiful song<3 :')

[heklngjekl]

Such a good fucking song, so beautiful.

[LisamHogan]

pure perfection 

[RTensleep]

No doubt it had changed from the original. But this is what JLP wrote.

[RTensleep]

I took my razor blade I layed Old Rebeun in the shade and I heard the radio moan I took my place in the hills jagged with the secret fires I called you through the valley down along the wires With dust upon the sands came the first day of the year I saw the house where no one lived, on a black land and under a red sky you washed my hair and skin against the firelight so touch me through yous screen door I want to remember you we struggled the year we lived in secret fire