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Look behind
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
To turn away from the night
Allowing the light a low
He's surely fooling yourself
Leaving life on the shelf
You'll never know
How low an angry heart can go
How long a sitting hands return meant
Look behind
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
Look behind
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
To turn away from the night
Allowing the light a low
He's surely fooling yourself
Leaving life on the shelf
You'll never know
How low an angry heart can go
How long a sitting hands return meant
Look behind
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
Look behind
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Keep on yawning
Career dawning
Life is tasteless
Folding paces
Lyrics submitted by Konversekid
Track duration: 03:02
"Your Head Is on Fire" as written by James Mercer Brian Burton
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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your heads on fire
whirling masses
rolling ashes
dream of morning
greener dawning (not career)
life in stasis
forty paces (still unsure here the forty part is clear but not the second word)
to turn away from the night
allowing the light alone
is surely fooling yourself
leaving half on the shelf ('half' not 'life' for sure)
you'll never know
how low an angry heart can go
(run and hide, your heads on fire)
soon hold on a sitting hands returning (not 'return me' i'm positive)
does anybody else here feel that fear,
the moment all these good things had to be? (I deduced 'moment' from the rest of the sentence)
is it just me?
Does anybody else here, feel that fear?
And all of all these good things have to be?
Or is it just me?
Run and hide = Look out
Your head's on fire = You're lying to yourself
Whirling masses = Everything's moving around you, leaving you behind
Rolling ashes = All the stuff that's in motion is already dead/pointless
Dream of morning = You're dreaming that a new life comes soon
GREENER DAWNING = You want that new life to be better (greener) than your current one
Life in stasis = Because your life isn't going anywhere
Folding aces = And you're giving up on all the truly good things in life
"Career dawning" suggests that the speaker's job/life is ALREADY getting better, not mundane and in need of betterment, which is what the surrounding lyrics suggest. "Greener dawning" fits both the audio and the context better.
head's on fire
whorling masses
rolling ashes
cling more fawning
career dawning
life in stasis
fording paces
to turn away from the night
allowing the light alone
is surely fooling yourself
leaving half on the shelf
you'll never know
how low an angry heart can go
(look behind your, head's on fire)
soon
hold on asserting hands return me
does anybody else here feel like you
ignored of all these good things had to be
is it just me
Hold on asserting hands return ... da da me
I can't tell if the last three syllables are one word or if the return is incorrect and it's a bigger word, but there's definately an extra two syllables between "return" and "me" assuming we have that even right. I do think Asserting Hands is correct though.
I just don't understand why bands don't post lyrics. I'm mean how friggin' hard is it to put it up on your website and stop all the aggivation about it?
It's also amusing how every single lyrics site is completely the same and completely wrong... like they basically just copy each other incorrect crap.
"hold on asserting hands return me"
making the complete lyrics as follows;..
head's on fire
whorling masses
rolling ashes
cling more fawning
career dawning
life in stasis
fording paces
to turn away from the night
allowing the light alone
is surely fooling yourself
leaving half on the shelf
you'll never know
how low an angry heart can go
(look behind your, head's on fire)
soon hold on our sitting hands return me
does anybody else here feel like you
ignored of all these good things had to be
is it just me
"Run and hide
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes
Dream of morning
Career dawning
Life in stasis
Folding aces"
To me it's about the frustration of being a spectator in this life, of seeing millions of millions of people living so blissfully unaware of what life really is, many of them miserably trapped by their families or careers, living in a state of dull stasis. "If they could only see what I see..." is the message I get.
I think this is an amazing song, the "Run and hide your head's on fire" part is almost patronizing, like a children's song, as if to symbolize the pressure to conform to everyone else in the working class. "Does anybody here feel like me?" is James Mercer's desperate reply, trying to rise over the noise of the masses.
I agree with nostalgicBadger's correction of the first part of the verse. However, I can't figure out what I'm hearing on the line that reads here "How long a sitting hands return meant." I know that's not what he's saying because it doesn't make sense, but after several listenings I still can't determine what the real words are. Suggestions?
Run and hide your head's on fire
Whirling masses, rolling ashes
Caymal morning, grey earth dawning
Life in stasis, forty paces,
Run and hide your head's on fire
Whirling masses, rolling ashes
Caymal morning, grey earth dawning
Life in stasis, forty paces,
To turn away from the night
Allowing the light alone
Is surely fooling yourself
Leaving half on a shelf
You'll never know
How low an angry heart can go (run and hide, your head’s on fire)
Soon, hold on to certain hands returnin’ (run and hide, your head’s on fire)
Run and hide your head's on fire
Whirling masses, rolling ashes
Caymal morning, grey earth dawning
Life in stasis, forty paces,
Does anybody else here feel that fear?
When none of all these good things had to be,
Or is it just me?
great song, its my favorite on the cd