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Funeral Pyre - Original Mix

Bûcher funéraire - Mix original

Down in amongst the streets tonight

Books will burn, people laugh and cry in their turmoil

(Turmoil turns rejoiceful)

Shed your fears and lose your guilt

Tonight we burn responsibility in the fire

We′ll watch the flames grow higher

But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home

And as I was standing by the edge

I could see the faces of those who led

Pissing theirselves laughing (and the flames grew)

Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces said

The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger

We feast on flesh and drink on blood

Live by fear and despise love in a crisis

(What with today′s high prices)

Bring some paper and bring some wood

Bring what's left of all your love for the fire

We'll watch the flames grow higher

But if you get too burnt, you can′t come back home

And as I was standing by the edge

I could see the faces of those who led

Pissing theirselves laughing (and the flames grew)

Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces said

The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger

In the funeral pyre

Dans le bûcher funéraire

We′ll watch the flames grow higher

But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home

But if you get too burnt, you can′t come back home

In the funeral pyre

Dans le bûcher funéraire

We′ll watch the flames grow higher

But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home

But if you get too burnt, you can′t come back home

In the funeral pyre

Dans le bûcher funéraire

(Well I feel so old, when I feel so young

Well, I just can′t grow up to meet the demands)

We'll watch the flames grow higher

But if you get too burnt, you can′t come back home

(Well I feel so old, when I feel so young

Well, I just can't grow up to meet the demands)

Well, I just can′t grow up to meet the demands)

(Well I feel so old, when I feel so young

Well, I just can't grow up to meet the demands)

(Well, I just can′t grow up to meet the demands)

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Writer(s): Bruce Foxton, Paul John Weller, Rick Buckler

Album

Hit Parade Box Set (4 Volume Set)

date of release

19-03-2007

1 In The City
2 Life At a Top Peoples Health Farm
3 How She Threw It All Away
4 Promised Land (Radio Edit)
5 Into Tomorrow
6 Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There To Fool You!)
7 Above The Clouds
8 Sunflower
9 Wild Wood
10 The Weaver - Single Edit
11 Hung Up
12 Out Of The Sinking
13 The Changingman (Single Edit)
14 You Do Something To Me
15 Broken Stones
16 Wanted (Or Waiter, There's Some Soup In My Flies)
17 Peacock Suit
18 Friday Street
19 Mermaids
20 Brand New Start
21 He's the Keeper (Single Edit)
22 Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea
23 It’s Written In The Stars
24 Leafy Mysteries
25 The Bottle
26 Wishing On A Star - Single Version
27 Thinking of You
28 Waiting
29 Blink And You'll Miss It
30 Early Morning Rain
31 From The Floorboards Up
32 Come On/Let's Go
33 Speak Like a Child
34 Here's The Good News
35 Beat Surrender
36 Brushed
37 It Didn't Matter (Single Edit)
38 Have You Ever Had It Blue (Single Version)
39 All Around the World
40 The Modern World (Single Version)
41 News Of The World
42 David Watts
43 The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
44 Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?
45 A Solid Bond In Your Heart
46 Come to Milton Keynes
47 Walls Come Tumbling Down
48 Shout To the Top
49 The Big Boss Groove
50 You're the Best Thing (Single Edit)
51 My Ever Changing Moods (Single Edit)
52 Long Hot Summer (Single Edit)
53 "A" Bomb In Wardour Street (Single Verson)
54 Down In the Tube Station At Midnight (Single Version)
55 Strange Town
56 When You're Young
57 Eton Rifles (Single Version)
58 Going Underground
59 The Dreams Of Children
60 Start!
61 That's Entertainment
62 Funeral Pyre - Original Mix
63 Absolute Beginners
64 Town Called Malice
65 Precious
66 Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2

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