"Fire Is My Friend" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	CD: Instant Gratification Compilation CD   Label: Fifty Pounds Overweight Records Credits: written and performed by Allen Ouimet
	Story Behind the Song The title and line "when the world's ablaze will you say: Fire is my friend?" came from a dream that my mother had. She called me from vacation and told me that she dreamt that someone was playing one of my songs and that was the line that she heard... I had no choice but to write a song around that one line... Lyrics The house is on fire, but this bed is so comfortable It feels like nineteen eighty six Happiness was more than getting by I never had to swallow my pride Lost inside myself Ketamine and Methadrine The ashtray taste of sweet sixteen My misplaced disconnected screams lie shaking on the floor The world is on fire, isn't life just wonderful Connect the dots, collect the prize Savage children beat the tribal drum The hive's communal hum "We're hungry, let us prey" They're stealing flags off the graves to wave in the parades Ain't life great? Everything is clean and safe But when the worlds ablaze will you still say, "Fire is my friend"? Highest tension, tightest rope A suicide without the note Locked inside the sniper's scope And I'm too tired to run... The life insurance policies are signed We’re worth more dead than alive And ain’t that the bottom line? Through the hazy film of cataracts, I sort memories and artifacts And all those dreams sped off in Cadillacs, Straight into the sun...

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