Bruce Springsteen
On Fire
Bruce Springsteen On Fire is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. In 1985 it became the fourth single released from his massively successful album Born in the U.S.A.
"I'm on Fire" was recorded in February 1982 during the first wave of Born in the U.S.A. sessions. This took place in impromptu fashion when Springsteen started making up a slow tune on guitar for some lyrics he had, and drummer Max Weinberg and keyboardist Roy Bittan, hearing it for the first time, created an accompaniment on the spot. The result was a moody number that merges a soft rockabilly beat, lyrics built around sexual tension, and synthesizers into an effective whole; it was one of the first uses of that instrument in Springsteen's music. The music video for Bruce Springsteen On Fire was shot in March 1985 in Los Angeles, and was directed by filmmaker John Sayles. Unlike the previous videos from the album, this video was not a performance clip but rather portrayed a dramatic storyline that alluded to some of the song's emotions. In it, Bruce Springsteen plays a working class automobile mechanic with an attractive, married, very well-to-do, mostly unseen female customer who brings her vintage Ford Thunderbird in for frequent servicing, always requesting that he does the work. She gives him all her keys, not just the ones for the car. Later that night, he drives the T-Bird up to her mansion high in the hills above the city. He is about to ring the bell, when he thinks better of it, smiles wistfully, drops her keys in the mailbox next to the door and walks away down towards the lights below. The video began airing in mid-April, received extensive MTV airplay, and later in the year Bruce Springsteen won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video.
Bruce Springsteen On Fire Lyrics
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire.
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire.
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh, no.
I can take you high.
Oh, oh, oh, 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.
And you, you cool my desire.
Oh, oh, oh I’m on fire.
Oh, oh, oh I’m on fire.
Oh, oh, oh I’m on fire.
Ohhh-hooo-hooo...
Ohhho-whooo...
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