FINAL FLAME The Lyrics

CATCH A FIRE (R. O`Gormain / C. McLaughlin)


I`ve got a new lease of life
My spirits are high
I`m on course for the time of my life
I`ve had to search to find
So I`ve ducked and dived
Through the flim flam that`s been washed my way

Second guessing is fine
But you should take my advice
Don`t turn your back on what you know to be true
Black lies make your white lies darker
Black lies make your white lies darker

I want to kiss the sky if I can reach that high
Catch a fire in my burning hands

What I`ve found is so good
Make you shake in your shoes
Leave you buzzing like a cheap TV
Take you out of this world
Might make your blood curdle
Open doors and set your freedom free

I want to kiss the sky if I can reach that high
Catch a fire in my burning hands
Catch a fire
Catch a fire in my burning hands
Catch a fire

Got a new gift of sight
So clear and so bright
That leaves me dazzled
Like a newborn child
I sensed a soar
A glide across some great divide
That left me speechless in the light of day

I want to kiss the sky if can reach that high
Catch a fire in my burning hands
I want to kiss the sky if can reach that high
Catch a fire in my burning hands

Catch a fire 
Catch a fire in my burning hands

Yeah
Catch a fire 
Catch a fire in my burning hands
Catch a fire 
Yeah
Catch a fire 

"My... my guitar turned to be a little snake there."
"Snake, a snake! That`s good, I think. Real good."


INFINITE THRILL (C. McLaughlin)


"Hey sush, in good time."

Velvet glove and laundered bills
Happiness in poison pills
This sleight of hand can tie us all in knots
Wiseblood count is low and might just clot

Second chances don`t exist
Miracles must not be missed
Days can smoulder crimson into night
Promises that stretch without requite

Dizzy infinite thrill
Girlsoul overspills
Radiate recreate
Those chromosomes are honeycombed and heaven sent
Heaven sent

It`s an infinite thrill
Such an infinite thrill

Tantalise with just one taste
All emotion is unlaced
No more questions seeking high and low
Second best to nothing that I know

Dizzy infinite thrill
Girlsoul overspills
Radiate recreate
Those chromosomes are honeycombed and
Dizzy infinite thrill
Girlsoul overspills
Radiate recreate
Those chromosomes are honeycombed and heaven sent
Heaven sent
Heaven sent
Heaven sent

Infinite thrill
Such an infinite thrill

"Yeay. Steve Harper, Steve Harper."


SHANGRI-LA (R. O`Gormain / C. McLaughlin)


"Whoo."

Picture a world of your own deepest wishes
I know it`s secrets of delights so delicious
You sense the words that will weaken my resistance
Lighter than air total magical existence

Shangri-la
You`re my keeper
Shangri-la
The sweetest feeling of all

Magnetic lips radiant and luminescent
Deep summer nights shimmering and phosphorescent
Dazzling allure that leads on in one direction
Pleasure of love feeding on this sweet confection

Shangri-la
You`re my keeper
Shangri-la
The sweetest feeling
Sweetest feeling of all

Picture a world of your own deepest wishes
I know it`s secrets of delights so delicious
Shangri-la
You`re my keeper
Shangri-la
The sweetest feeling of all
Sweetest feeling
Sweetest feeling of all

Mesmerise me shangri-la
Mesmerise me shangri-la


GENIOUS MOVE (C. McLaughlin)


"Hey hey hey hoo."

Slaughterhouse number 5
Don't look at me with those empty eyes
Anyway I don't care
A shattered smile and a foolish stare

Lovers can and lovers will
Change a heart, take away the chill
And even if I have regrets
I know that I won't be upset
Cos I've finally made my genius move

It's kinda funny
It's kinda the way she looks at me
It's kinda funny
It's kinda the way she looks at me

Slaughterhouse number 5
Don't look at me with those empty eyes
Anyway I don't care
A shattered smile and a foolish stare

It's kinda funny
It's kinda the way she looks at me
It's kinda funny
It's kinda the way she looks at me


IT`S A GOOD THING (S. O`Néill)


Senses fail
And we know why
Indifference slides
From every corner
But I just want
To be with you
The silent screams
Above each other

It`s a good thing
Such a good thing
We do
We do

While governments gain
All money can buy
Trash means cash
In any country
But I just want
To be with you
Our flesh feels fresh
And that`s the beauty

It`s a good thing
Such a good thing
We do
We do

It`s a good thing
Such a good thing
We do

"Hey!"


HEY VENUS (C. McLaughlin)


"You know this one?"

For sure for sure and actual 
You swear by all that`s factual
Insane elastic joy despair
Figures dance and bebop 
Take me away from the drop 
I cannot help but stand and stare 
Sawdust casanovas 
Are dying to take over  
Lipstick on bankrolls it`s a deal 
Telling stinkin lies 
Cheap chat and shifty eyes 
Double the price you gotta steal 

Hey Venus  
Hey Venus 
Wants us all so bad  
Hope it drives her mad 

Holy Rollers thinkers 
Kneejerks and lovesick drinkers 
Eyeball eachother through the haze 
Swapping tales of woe 
Ozone and GI Joe 
They can they do and guess who pays 

Hey Venus  
Hey Venus
Wants us all so bad  
Hope it drives her mad 

Whooo
Whooo

Time to spit it out  
Wash it down the spout 
You don`t have to Kiss because you pout 
All those high hopes locked up inside 
Let `em out 
Put your doubt aside 

Hey Venus 
Hey Venus
Wants us all so bad  
Hope it drives her mad 

Hey Venus  
Hey Venus 
Wants us all so bad  
Hope it drives her
Mad 

Hey Venus  
Hey Venus 
Wants us all so bad  
Hope it drives her
Mad 

"Yo!"


SENSITIZE (C. McLaughlin)


Heard a secret and
Saw you smilin`
So convincing
You`re so beguiling
Leaves me breathless and
I can`t think straight at all

Cold as starlight
You sting like sunburn
Searching blindfold you
Melt my fingers
Summer bleeds for you
Testifies

Ultrafervor
Head to toe
Sensitizes
Burns and glows
Helter Swelter
Sweet and Slow
Avalanche
Avalanche
Avalanche

Heard a secret and
Saw you smilin`
So convincing
You`re so beguiling
Leave me breathless and
I can`t think straight at all

Daunburst drowning
Your favourite feelings
Avalanches that chill all healing
Spurning Indigo
Celebrate

Ultrafervor
Head to toe
Sensitizes 
Burns and glows 
Helter Swelter 
Sweet and Slow 
Sweet and Slow 
Avalanche
Avalanche
Avalanche

Helter Swelter
Sweet and Slow
Helter Swelter
Sweet and Slow
Helter Swelter
Sweet and Slow
Helter Swelter
Sweet and Slow

"I suggest, I suggest tonight 
I suggest tonight that that song becomes the new Irish National Anthem."


TINGLE (R. O`Gormain)


"This one`s for Tamaki."
"Okay."
"Ain`t that nice?"

Sometimes I couldn`t care if you ran out of air oh no
You see my star kid groover`s holding tight on the reins of my heart

It`s a gas it`s a treat we were made for the trees
How I want her like this 
How I love when she feeds me her Tingle

She`s my mudhoney child as we dance on the waves on the street
You see my all time mover`s boppin` hard from her head to her feet

It`s a gas it`s a treat not a hint of deceit
How I want her like this
How I love when she feeds me her Tingle

So so
Why do we always keep looking back
Feelin` joy feelin` pain we`re exactly the same
I can`t change what always remain oh no no no

So why do we always keep looking back
Feelin` joy feelin` pain we`re exactly the same
I can`t change what always remain oh no no no

Subterranean spark won`t you fill up the dark with your Tingle
Subterranean spark won`t you fill up the dark with your Tingle
Subterranean spark won`t you fill up the dark with your Tingle

"Thanks very much."


DETONATE MY DREAMS (C. McLaughlin)


Endless train of thought running through my mind
Things aren`t what they seem in these treacherous times
Currents shift
We swim against the tide

Unbelievers dressed in smiling suede
Can`t fill the void
Can`t dull the blade
All counterfeit and gimcrack cheats selling the truth!

This generation knows it
This desolation shows it
This detonation can lift you high

Fascination feeds on jagged lives
With a silver palm and a bunch of fives
Setting your feet on a one way street
It`s a road to ruin!

This generation knows it
This desolation shows it
This detonation can lift you high

Detonate my dreams
Detonate my dreams

Turning back the clock reverse in time
Talking sideways with no reason or rhyme
All by themselves in a private hell
The chosen few

This generation knows it
This desolation shows it
This detonation can lift you high

This generation knows it
This desolation shows it
This detonation can lift you high


MOUTH CRAZY (S. O`Néill)


"We`re back! But hey, something`s... something`s arrived.
We have an extra speckie bastard on stage!"

Hinklestein`s inside his cabinet
Outside stinks of fish and crèpe suzette
Shut that crazy mouth
Shut that crazy mouth
Hinklestein`s inside his cabinet

Only fierce girls mix with father John
It makes your adolescence start up wrong
Shut that crazy mouth
Shut that crazy mouth
He never used to talk to anyone

Hinklestein`s adrift on uisce fhior
That perfume sucker baby`s swamped with tears
Shut that crazy mouth
Shut that crazy mouth
Hinklestein`s adrift on uisce fhior

Barracuda bites on wagging tongues
It makes your adolescence start up wrong
Shut that crazy mouth
Shut that crazy mouth
It`s just the tool you used on everyone

Hinklestein`s around
Hinklestein`s around
Hinklestein`s around
Hinklestein`s around
Hinklestein`s around
Yeah
Hinklestein`s around
Hinklestein`s around
Wow


BIG DECISION (S. O´Néill)


See my honey in the streets
It`s desolate but where she likes to meet
Economies gets weaker
Reactionaries stronger
As big as satisfaction on their knees

You`d rather sail the ocean
Than make
A big
Decision

I won`t function anymore
Plastic bullets shoot headlines in store
Business men get richer
Individual stronger
Bells won`t ring when scum boot down the door

You`d rather sail the ocean
Than make
A big
Decision

What you`ve gotta do
In this day and age
You gotta agitate
Educate
Organize
Take the time to live
Take the time to give
You gotta adjucate
Educate
Organized

See my honey in the street
It`s desolate but where she likes to meet
Uh
And I`d like to keep her
Make her even sweeter
For anyone who cares to be with me

You rather sail the ocean
Than make
A big
Decision

You`d rather sail the ocean
Than make
A big
Decision

What you`ve gotta do
In this day and age
You gotta agitate
Educate
Organize
Take the time to live
Take the time to give
You gotta agitate
Educate
Organize


SWEET SHIVER BURN (R. O`Gormain / C. McLaughlin)


"The hell you`re shoutin` about?"

Sunset tears
This crummy town will squeeze you
Cling to fears
The ones you`ve always known
Good as Gold
And twice as hard to part with
Truth be told
I just can`t explain
Don`t hesitate
Nod at fate
It`s too late
Now you`ve been smothered whole

Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn

Endless roads
The final flame will daze you
Skyline prayers
The one`s you`ve always dreamed
Don`t hesitate
Smile at fate
It`s so right
That you`ve been smothered whole

Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn

Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn
Sweet Shiver Burn


ABANDON (R. O`Gormain)


I watched the nightbird fly so low
The burning men
Their heads aglow
Feast or famine
Reap or sow
Your interpretation
Says it all

I say Abandon
I say Abandon

You`ve got no blood
In your veins
Everything you`ve done
You`ve feined
I cut my teeth
On a bed of wire
I sold my soul
For my hearts desire

I say Abandon
I say Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Ah how

I get so scared of my own damn vision
I step back
Revise my position
Yeah
I know it`s
All my own decision
I know
I said I know it`s all my own decision

I say Abandon
I say Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Aaah

Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon

Accept the demons at posession
Accept the demons at posession
So high
So high high high high
High
High
High
High

Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon
Abandon

Abandon

"Thank you."
"It`s been great...too!"
"See you soon."


CHEMICRAZY (S. Mack / J. Marchini/ C. McLaughlin / R. O'Gormainn / D.O'Neill)



BLUE TO BLACK (C. McLaughlin)


"This is for John Marchini."
"Over here, get over here"
"Please..."

Mirror fragments that are staring back
Livid lips and an eye that`s turning blue to black
Cracked

Sweaty walls that keep me company
And the stink of perfume primes my memory
Luxury

Takes you in its arms won`t you honey hush
Senses drawing skin that crawles and squirms to touch
Crushed

Whisper words into my mouth and bite
Coming up for air and to suffocate delight
Spite

Mirror fragments that are staring back
Livid lips and an eye that`s turning blue to black
Cracked

With an aftertaste so sweetly sour
I embrace the shame as it hugs me cheek by jowl

Howl
Howl
Howl
Howl


SCUMSURFIN` (C. McLaughlin)


I`m getting out while it`s not too late for me
Seems this triple vision sealed my fate for me
Things I hear and what they`re saying about me
I really need someone to solve this mystery

Losing sleep and missing dreams
Hazy notions half forgotten schemes
Hopes that end in dust and ash
Head is empty
I`m talking trash

Let me take one more slug of your eyes
A muddled message that I`ll have to satisfy
Don`t but me no buts take you own advice
Keep your logic 
I`ll hang onto my dice

Laugh at bad luck 
Let it ride
Scumsurfin` on a putrid tide
Disappear without a splash
Head is empty
Talking trash
Trash

Triple vision sealed my fate
Things I hear are things I hate
Hopes that end in dust and ash
Head is empty talkin` trash

Laugh at bad luck 
Let it ride
Scumsurfin` on a putrid tide
Disappear without a splash
Walk on water talkin`
Trash