Lyrics for I'm on Fire as interpreted by leaneys

I'm on Fire Lyrics
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
oooh I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
oooh I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife
baby edgy and dull
and cut a six inch valley
through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets
soaking wet and
a freight train running
through the middle of my head -
only you can cool my desire

oooh I'm on fire......

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Mercury
05-09-2003

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This song is one of his greats. He sings this with a lot of passion and emotion. His voice is calm and steady. Sung beautifully.

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Flychick773
06-08-2003

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This song is so gorgeous!!! I love it so much. It just has such a beautiful tune and the lyrics are oh so wonderful. I really like this song if you can't tell by now...hehehe! LOVE IS ALL YA NEED!!! ~*~Tessa~*~

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DancingHippie
06-23-2003

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I heard this song on the radio when I was missing someone and it was perfect......it was so mellow which fit my mood.....you seem to like songs more when they fit your mood.

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luckycharms
05-26-2004

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If you watch the music video for this song, it becomes pretty clear. Its about liking someone that's unavailable. Basically, Bruce is fixing this beautiful woman's car, who flashes her wedding ring and lives in a big house. He goes to her house to drop off the keys, and hesitates ringing the doorbell, before just leaving the keys in her mail drop and walking away sadly. There's nothing he can really do about the infatuation. I love this song!!

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DubC4Life
06-05-2004

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this song is so beautiful. perfect picture of a boy's longing.

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nechronius
06-10-2004

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This song is a line by line description of a serial killer.

Ok, not really. But imagine my amusement when I realized how perfectly the words DO describe the psyche of a serial killer. Think I'm joking? Detailed analysis on my website, tongue firmly in cheek, yet the analysis is surprisingly "real."

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luckye225
09-27-2004

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Sometimes it's like someone took a knife
baby edgy and dull
and cut a six inch valley
through the middle of my soul

great line(s)

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Vertigo22
09-28-2004

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Love stinks.

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spankme
10-21-2004

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Hmm very simple....this is family friend or uncle?? who adores the "girl"....his deep thoughts about her. He fights it....with all this heart....dreaming of her, mm wet dreams..freight train..and the WooHooo....whooOOhoooo of it all..is obvious of what tunnel he wants to be in....and it is tearing his soul apart...this is a mere fantasy that he doesn't act upon.......hopefully. But in all, it is killing him.
Ripping him apart. WhoooOO hoOOOoo...self control ol man, self control ;)

get a gf dude and stop being a pervert dude lol

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spankme
10-21-2004

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Listening again..........he could be a step dad....eesh..either/or it all sounds sinfull -- and wrong....don't we all know that fire is bad/evil and that any man who WhooHooozzzzzzzzz over a bad situation...can't be a good boy???


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voodoochilde
11-18-2004

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I'm pretty certain, judging by the video, that the "daddy" in question is of the sugar daddy variety.

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spankme
11-28-2004

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any daddy/authority figure is of a sugardaddy nature voodoo....

even the most humble broke man ..owns more than a young girl.

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sakebox
11-30-2004

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I'll paraphrase Nick Cave, "Why do love, desire, and sex always have to be pure in music? Can't they be dark, dirty, and scary sometimes?"

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toolmusik
12-19-2004

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This song is about a dude who is, literally, on fire, and before he burns to the ground he's asking a girl if she's home alone so he can poke her cooze with his flaming hot rod.

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LurkerAbyss
02-14-2005

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This song is so emo.

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catatonic121
03-05-2005

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He actually says "Skull" instead of "Soul"

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bobtaurus
07-21-2005

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I've always wondered if this wasn't the shortest song to break the top 40 (or 20, or however high on the charts it got).

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CAMeye
02-10-2006

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I always thought of it as a love song but when i just read the lyrics it sounds more like he is a rapist.
Or at least somebody who wants too take advantage of a little girl

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voodoochilde
02-13-2006

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My interpretation of this song is as follows: The singer is in love with a woman who has a boyfriend already, maybe even a husband. This husband/boyfriend is probably not good to her, perhaps he even treats her as if he were her father instead of her lover. The singer wants to step in and be her lover.

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DC10
04-29-2006

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This song is about wanting someone so much they feel as if they are on fire from their "burning desire". Certainly a very smooth and well-sung song. Brilliant tunage.

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Acey_Dearest
05-23-2006

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Oh, man, this is a sexy, sexy song...!

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Cherub Rock
06-08-2006

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This song is about struggling with lust and a strong sex drive. Fantastic song, so atmospheric. My favourite off 'Born in the USA' along with 'Dancing in the Dark'..

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LucyInTheSkyWithRH
06-11-2006

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this is the sexiest song ever written
he wants the girl so much it hurts and you can really feel it listening to the song! it's dark and very straightforward

and he definitely sings 'through the middle of my skull'

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dri-ft
08-07-2006

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guys, why do you have to draw a distinction between it being a love song and it being a stalker-esque kind of song? Don't you think that love is the kind of feeling that would draw someone to stalk or do bad things to another person?

I think it's somewhere inbetween, and I think sakebox had the right idea.

"I've got a bad desire"

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jimmy_the_saint
08-09-2006

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All y'all, go buy or rent the movie "Badlands" with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek (released in 1973). The last two stanzas were lifted straight from that movie, and the whole song is more about the f***ed up Kit-Holly relationship. I seem to recall Bruce even saying that that movie was the inspiration for this song.

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