Name: Keeper of the Flame
Duration: P00H03M23S
Description: its a song about the pursuit of creativity-how solitude is crucial to the process and the fear of losing the ability to keep the fires burning-its quite playful for me and sets out to ridicule my reliance on that rare old fashioned commodity-being alone.

Keeper of the Flame

by Nicky Wire

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its a song about the pursuit of creativity-how solitude is crucial to the process and the fear of losing the ability to keep the fires burning-its quite playful for me and sets out to ridicule my reliance on that rare old fashioned commodity-being alone.

lyrics

i don't need space just a room with a view
a television and some flowers in bloom
my eyes are getting tired holding back the tears
makes me feel so lonesome makes me feel so free

i'm only certain baby when i am with you
sends me backwards somehow deep into my youth
and i see all around me the joy and the despair
nothing left to lose now no one left to care

radio on typewriter clicking
everything is ok no one is listening
i'm not a socialist anymore
the SOCIAL bit leaves me cold
i am an ist i am an ism
a lifelong affair with tunnel vision

and if i am the keeper of this flame
i will not let it baby end in this way
it will make me stronger make me still believe
keep those fires burning keep those flames in me

radio on typewriter clicking
everything is ok no one is listening
i'm not a socialist anymore
the SOCIAL bit leaves me cold
i am an ist i am an ism
a lifelong affair with tunnel vision

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released June 28, 2023
all words and music Nicky Wire
recorded by Loz Williams
produced by Loz Williams and Nicky Wire
Vocals,bass,electric guitars Nicky Wire
Drums Rich Beak
Keyboards Loz Williams
extra guitar and backing vocals James Dean Bradfield
mixed by Dave Eringa

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