Bonfires: By Rickie Lee Jones

From the album titled :Balm In Gilead, released in 2009. You can purchase it at her online store through her website at: http://www.greatbigisland.com/rickie_sales.htm

There's just one thing before I go
You are the sweetest boy I know
I've lived my whole life in the past
But I awoke last night at last

I thought I'd finally won your heart
And that forever never part
And in sweet love we would grow old
Now I'm just a scavenger in the cold

I'm just a scavenger...

All I can do is wish you well
And light the Bonfires of hell
Honey, you hurt me bad this time
I'm burning everything I find

You hurt me bad this time
You nearly tore me from my mind
Before I knew I had been hurt
She laid her hair across your shirt

She laid her hair...

All I can do is wish you well
And light the Bonfires of hell
There's just one thing before I go
You are the sweetest boy I know

You are the sweetest boy...

If there's a sun, I'll watch it rise
To dry the tears out of my eyes
If there's a river, you can bet
There'll be a sea for my heart yet

There'll be a sea for my heart yet...

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Music

Tags:

• Balm In Gilead
• Rickie Lee Jones
• Bonfires

[OklassicVintage]

Thank you.

I love this song

[SH000FLY]

@OklassicVintage You're welcome. I love it too.

[Dickkait]

On first hearing this, this amazing and beautiful song, with this downpour of poetry, I was just stunned. I know she says the song was created after a strong relationship she had, was demolished. I don't know what the circumstance was, but I can totally relate to her need to repair herself. That is a very strong artist; the poetry is utterly powerful, and I really am upset somehow she would be hurt that bad. Thankfully, she had the strength to heal herself. DK

[higgme1ster]

As Royal Marshall used to say, "just damn."