On Fire

from Designs by Cause of Accident

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lyrics

Through an ocean of harm, she dreams of her escape
To an island of calm where sorrow is swept away

It’s freezing inside, she’s alone and frightened
But I can tell you’re alive when your breathing whitens

And channelling thought, she helps me find a vein
She tightens the knot, ’cos there’s no other way...

The trivial things that I want to implode
Are coming to me in a fractured code
The longer I waited, the more that I felt
’Cos I don’t believe in a God that can help

As the sedative floods, she moves and I am captured
She is warm in my blood, a partisan enraptured

Drain the candle that’s burning on the mantle
She is reaching through the dark, where the river flows to your heart
All this inaction, it drives me to distraction
But it’s a means to let you in, when it’s searing through my skin

Rain, I’m on fire now
Rain, I’m on fire now

She lies on the tracks, as riven as scarred terrain
We’ll never look back, incinerate our remains

I need you to end this pain of mine
And put all the opium in my spine
The trivial things that I want to implode
Are driving away on an endless road

She’s a shimmer of light to heighten your defences
Where the feeling ignites a world without consequences...

I’ll wait, for so long
The light fades, and she’s gone
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.

I’m not afraid, if she’s gone
’Cos I’ll wait, for so long
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.

Rain, I’m on fire now
Rain, I’m on fire now

She dreams...

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from Designs, released February 10, 2017
Music & lyrics by Chris Carter

Produced, recorded & mixed by Tim Reid at Grapevine Studios

Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio, NY

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