Name: the fire sermon (acid jazz version)
Duration: 8 min 24 s
Channel: Martin Holsinger, BMI
Description: "the fire sermon (acid jazz version)" is a song by brother martin and the intangibles. this, too, shall pass...

the fire sermon (acid jazz version)

brother martin and the intangibles

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this, too, shall pass...

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brother martin and the intangibles

psychedelic semi-acoustic folk rock with a conscience, a beat, and a smile

There's nothing I'd rather do than play music. I write my own songs, but also enjoy playing the work of Kate Wolf, Richard Thompson, the Grateful Dead, and many other musicians too numerous to mention. The songs I write tap into the same veins of insight, inspiration, and ecstasy that my favorite musicians channel so well.

Song Info

Genre

Jazz • Acid Jazz

Charts

#220 in subgenre Peak #10

Charts

Peak #372

Author

Martin Holsinger, BMI

Rights

martin holsinger

Uploaded

September 18, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.7 MB • 128 kbps • 8:24

Story behind the song

the first four sections were written as poetry quite a number of years before the final section, which was written as a "rave-up" rock song, but they all seem to fit together quite nicely here...

Lyrics

I.
after the fire of youth, 
the fire of age
flesh withers and sags,
joint-grease melts away
dark hair burns through grey 
to white ash

still, a subtler fire
shines in your eyes:
alchemical, inviting:
solve et coagulo:
distill, if we dare, a gem
that will gleam
undiminished
when time has had its way
with our transient bones

II.
we meet
and however close we 
become, for however long
we're going to be apart
again, so very soon, for
so very long.
that's why i'm learning
to love the pain 
of letting you go
over and over and over again

III.
these bodies we think we are--
i can't tell if they're 
melting or burning
or just drying up and 
blowing away.
and still--surprise and delight
to feel so healed
in the shelter of your 
crumbling arms

IV.
making love 
by the dying bonfire 
of our youth--
embers glowing, hot,
but not to be rekindled:
it's all to ashes from here.

you stand before me 
strong, naked, beautiful--
as i watch wtih loving lust
you fade from maiden 
to crone and i remember:
All too soon our eyes
will grow dull, our flesh
rot and sag from crumbling bones.

let us drink deep from our pleasure
while we can, even as
every joy tastes of pain,
every gentle touch burns
and freezes, each
tender kiss, the kiss
of death.

and when death does come
as my lover and yours,
we shall 
shrink the less from 
his embrace, 
having yielded wtih
such vision and loving grace
to each other

V.
I love a woman
she's a burning woman
I'm gonna love her
just as long as I can
She loves me, my burning woman
she loves me
I'm her burning man

I love her body 
though her body's burning
I love her soul 
though it's only passing through
I love her heart
love her heart that holds me
I love to hear her say
"I love you"

Some days the heat just drives us crazy
some days it's a white-hot glow
We love to mingle in the heat of the moment
catch a little fire 
and let it go

Some days the heat just drive us crazy
some day we gonna lie so cold
dance in the fire, in the embers,
in the ashes, dance
the slowin' rhythm of growin' old

bye-bye, my burnin' woman
we're here together but we're
already gone
bless your heart, bless your heart
for holdin' me
bless the fire for burnin' strong

flesh gonna sag 
gonna fold gonna wrinkle
flesh gonna melt in the twinkle of an eye
bones gonna shatter
gonna burn down to ashes
ashes gonna scatter in the wind in the sky.....

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