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BLOOD AND FIRE (Amy Ray)
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[Key of A, but actually in B, so capo up 2 frets]
[The chords are just guides; mix in a lot of (9) chords with these. For
instance: in the intro, play the A for 5/8 of the measure and A(9) for
the last 3/8; same with the G. The D is actually D-D(9)-D-D(9). Dsus
is used at the end of the verses, and Asus at the end of choruses.]
[A=002220; A(9)=002200; Asus=002230; D=x00232; D(9)=x00230; Dsus=x00233;
G=320003; G(9)=300003 or 320203.]
A G D D A G D D
[intro]
A G D D
Well I have spent nights with matches and knives
A G D D
Leaning over ledges only two flights up
A G D D
Cutting my heart, burning my soul, with nothing left to hold
A G D D
Nothing left, but blood and fire
A G D D
You have spent nights thinking of me, missing my arms but you needed to leave
A G D D
Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns, hoping I'd learn
G D A A
But blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold
G D A A
And my nights of desire, they're calling me here, back to your fold
G D A A
And I'm calling you, calling you, from ten thousand miles away
G D A A
Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give
And'll give back as much as I need, y'know and they still have the will to live
'Cause I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
But I feel forsaken, you know like the things I, I gave away
And blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold
And my nights of desire, they're calling me here, back to your fold
And I'm calling you, calling you, from ten thousand miles away
Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe
I am intense, I'm in need, I'm in pain, I'm in love
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
And blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold
And my nights of desire, they're calling me here, back to your fold
And I'm calling you, calling you, from ten thousand miles away
Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe
Won't you wet my fire with your love, baby, hold me
G D A
E ------^-3------------^-2-------3-2-0--------------0------|
B ------/-3-------------3-----3-------3----------2--------|
G -------0------------/-2-----2----------------2----------|
D ------/-0-------------0-----0--------------2------------|
A -------2------------/-0-----0----------0-0--------------|
E ------/-3------------------------------------------------|
Wet my fire with your love
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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JAY Average |
#1 by JAY at Jan 13, 1981 at 9:58 AM EST |
| amy ray quote from 2/27/1999: over at amy's, footnotes: "it's a love song. it's about a relationship that was important to me in a self-destructive way. it took a long time to write it, a couple of years to get through it. it expresses a kind of love that a lot of people feel at one time in their lives. it's the obsessive compulsive love, which is very, very dangerous." 1 | |
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GENT BENT Wanna Be |
#2 by GENT BENT at Dec 19, 1982 at 4:15 PM EST |
| This song is way way intense. I heard that Amy never plays it live - is that true? It sounds like a page out of a diary of someone with severe depression . | |
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TC Wanna Be |
#3 by TC Clark at Jul 6, 1990 at 10:27 AM EST |
| I am not sure about "never playing it live," but I do remember at one of the shows I went to, people were shouting out requests for this song. Amy refused to play it, and in fact said that this was the "No Blood and Fire Tour!" | |
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Tracii Wanna Be |
#4 by Tracii Guns at Sep 29, 1990 at 8:03 AM EST |
| Amy won't play the song live *anymore*. I guess she's past the Blood and Fire stage of her life. If you saw any of their shows in the early 90's or saw Live At The Uptown Lounge, she used to perform it live. And she'd act like she was dying up there or something. | |
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