U2 Songs - Fire Lyrics

U2 - Fire

U2 - Fire Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: October
Released: 1981

Fire Lyrics

Falling falling
The sun is burning black
Falling falling
It's beating on my back
With a fire
With a fire

Falling falling
The moon is running red
Falling falling
It's pulling me instead
With a fire
Fire

But there's a Fire inside
When I'm falling over
There's a fire in me
When I call out
I built a fire
I'm going home

Falling falling
The stars are falling down
Falling falling
They knock me to the ground
With a fire
Fire

But there's a fire inside
When I'm falling over
There's a fire in me
When I call out
There's a fire inside
When I'm falling over
I feel the fire
I'm going home

Writer/s: JONES, GARETH
Publisher: Chrysalis One Music
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Fire Song Chart

This song was released as a single three months before October came out. It was the first U2 song to chart, going to #35 in England.

U2 recorded this in the Bahamas in 1981 while on a break from their US tour. It was the only track on October not recorded in Dublin.

The lyrics contain apocalyptic, biblical themes. Bono has always worked a lot of religious imagery into his lyrics, but he's rarely this dire, singing about the "sun burning black" and "stars falling down."

U2 performed this on their first appearance on British TV show Top Of The Pops.

A distorted guitar segment of this appears at the end of some of the vinyl copies of Boy.