Hugh Cornwell - One Burning Desire (Acoustic)

Hugh Cornwell - First night of his 2008 UK Acoustic Tour, The Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, 21st February 2008



Lyrics


I'm gonna try and steal a car
Drive it off with you somewhere afar
I'll start a fire deep inside
Find a place where we can hide
And as life flashes by
You want to know the reasons why
I'll be there with words to take you higher
One burning desire

I'm gonna try to be a light
Set the world on fire day and night
We start an education here
The signs look good no need to fear
The other people come and go
Why play the scenes they only know
I'll be here to help you walk the wire
One burning desire one burning desire

One burning desire x 4

I want to get inside your head
Find your ma and pa and what got said
And as we get familiar too
Find every scar and small tattoo
And as we start to play the game
I'll confess and take the blame
But you're the one who poured fuel on the fire
One burning desire one burning desire one burning desire

One burning desire x 4

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• Stranglers

[Wattsie]

Oh itt's not so much patriotic but a 'LONDON' 70's thing and growing up with them on the telly - and nothing like Columbo who is my favourite after the other two - just love the way he gets his man (or woman) Can't put a link up but search The Sweeney on here

[MoveOverCasanova]

ok, from the patriotic point i cannot judge it, i am neither american nor english.

but columbo drives a french and wears a trench!,

---and apart fom this he is really the kind of type i just never get tired of, his humbleness is so disarming )which reminds me of the song above)

[Wattsie]

Jack Regan from The Sweeney, proper old school hardhitting 70's/80's police drama (Gene Hunt was based on him or detectives like him) and of course English :)

[MoveOverCasanova]

jack who?:-) for me there is no one above columbo.

he is definetely the man!

[Wattsie]

Ha ha :) Love Columbo, my fave detective after Jack Regan and Gene Hunt

[MoveOverCasanova]

as columbo would say - "this could be an explanation"

[Wattsie]

I think men are more romantic, guys have an ideal, Name the greatest love songs ever I doubt any of them have been written by women. A man in love is a force to be reckoned with - men also take so much longer to get over break-ups if in love. As for what we fall in love with a guy over. how could he be that special to us unless we find that bit of him he is unaware of. - We don't want the same dress/shoes as another woman why would we want a man who is like every other womans :-)

[MoveOverCasanova]

do you know what i find really interesting---whatever a girl loves a guy for, she is always eager to mention that it´s a quality he is "unaware of", or "doesn´t realize".

i don´t wanna become heady, but i really heard this several times recently, and it´s puzzling.

women can be so seriously romantic

[Wattsie]

Absolutely - and nothing more appealing IMO than a man showing his vulnerabilty and he doesn't realise it - especially when you think The Stranglers were painted as a tad misogynistic - books and covers eh MOC :-) JJ was I think the obvious choice for women... but me I was a huge Steve Diggle fan - still am - check out my 'new' upload for Diggle, Jones & Matlock

[MoveOverCasanova]

i remember when he left the stranglers he first recorded an album called "WOLF" --

well, it is obvious that he was the woman´s type in the band ( at least the "official" one;-), and it is no suprise that it is mostly the frontmen who leave their bands -

but when you listen to songs like "duchess", you see that he is a quite vulnerable "wolf", and that appearance and attitude do not always match the way they semm to! but to me that is the point where it gets really interesting!!