Drawing by
Simon Andrew

Fire in the hole

You triumphed over will
You had immunity to kill
You had your dreams fulfilled
And I love you still
But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Ah the nights are getting cold
All your secrets will be told
Turn your lanterns low

As long as you can dig up proof
As cold as water through the roof
Brutal as depicted truth
That kid's a fuckin goof
Turn your lanterns low
But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Yeah the nights are getting cold
All his secrets will be told
Turn your lanterns low
Alright

I'd like to stand up soon and show
I'd like to let some people know
I'd turn my bucket over
I'd turn my lantern low
But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Yeah the nights are getting cold
All my secrets would be told
Turn your lanterns low
Alright                                  Alright

Sidebar

Another older song also called
Fire in the Hole
is an old coal
mining union song. You can
hear that version, sung by
Hazel Dickens in John Sayles
film, Matewan.

Setlist slang - Fire

Sounds

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Fire in the hole * So hard done by * Nautical disaster
Thugs * Inevitability of death * Scared * An inch an hour
Emergency * Titanic terrarium * Impossibilium

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