The Gun Club - "Fire Spirit"

Off their classic 1981 album "Fire of Love"

I can see clearly
from my diamond eyes,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will accept all of me
so the Fire...will stop

Up through the streets
the gunfire of cars,
going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will take all of me
so the Fire...will stop

I will be cheating
the whole ritual,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will expect all of me
so the Fire..will stop

Someone will break out of the circle,
someone will turn and burn a world
someone knows a better cell
where the old north wind blows through southeast hell, yeah....

Invention was betrayed by the machine,
promised like it was promised to me
I'm going up to the mountain to see
how the last thing, will set me free, yeah...

I had to do something, I was wearing down,
I was going down....

Why can no one ever touch a Fire Spirit?
Why can no one ever hold a Fire Spirit?
Why can no one ever feel a Fire Spirit?

I am going to the mountain,
I am going to the mountain,
I am going to the montain....

I can see clearly
from my diamond eyes,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit,
no one will accept all of me...
and the fire...will stop...

With too much patience
and too much pain,
going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
to make amends for all of me...
and the Fire...will stop.

Category:

Music

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• gun
• club
• fire
• love
• spirit
• jeffrey
• lee
• pierce
• kid
• congo
• powers

[eddym78]

One of the most underrated band of all time. I love them!

[centerrightpunk]

fuck the labels. do-it-yourself.

[DGENERATE07]

@centerrightpunk (part 3) of course there is the argument that if every band on the planet supported the indie labels right now then we would stop major music corruption right away, but that is never going to happen ever (it's a fact that it's impossible) because it's such a big risk that most musicians would never make that decision because they know for a fact that other bands wouldn't make the same decision and they would be left with hardly anybody ever hearing their music

[DGENERATE07]

@centerrightpunk (part 2) on the other hand, if you use the big labels then you can put the message across the whole world how corporate society is blinding and robbing us all (John Lennon style!!). then we could start changing the world forever quickly (as well as just the music world!), which would be less of a loss then all the corruption and evil put into life by the major corporations whilst you supported indie labels that would probably never change the world

[DGENERATE07]

@centerrightpunk you'll be surprised by this but you're actually causing more corruption using your method instead of mine. if you use the small labels then yeah you're not feeding money to the fat cats but it's going to take hundreds of years to eventually stop them (if ever) because it's not going to stop the fact that a lot of bands will always use the major labels because they want their music to be heard (and there's nothing wrong with that) -this is just part 1, the next part is important

[centerrightpunk]

@DGENERATE07 LOL. yea, and somehow just ignore all the corruption the labels do in their process of endless profit-chasing.

[DGENERATE07]

@centerrightpunk wrong. use the labels to tell everyone whats wrong and make a bigger change

[Shine5757]

I saw them a few times in 83 in france and i still love this band

[vangvieng1]

the best band ever

[ventoritmico]

@bostweed haha i discovered this band today and i thought about that connection too

[superdude593]

You got a fire spirit?

[NYrocknrollbitch]

knowing anything about gun club, you'd know their initial mission was to set out to be the druggiest , most loaded band. Then a career developed, Fire of Love came before Jeff lee ditched the dope for just the drink and working out.