Given their influence and catalog of great songs, I am amazed that Roxy Music isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. This is just another great song of theirs–great saxaphone, great vocals, great song.
Both Ends Burning is a simple song about a man who has been dumped but still has strong feelings.
And of course, the lyrics:
Please don’t ever let me down
For you know I’m not so sure
Do I have the speed to carry on?
Burn you out of my mind, I know
You’re a flame that never fades
Jungle red´s a deadly shade
Both ends burning, will the fires keep
Somewhere deep in my soul tonight?
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Now my course is plain as day
Running bold across to play
Both ends burning with a strange desire
That feeds the fire in my soul tonight
I will dance the night away
Living only for today
Both ends burning while you’re counting sheep
Hell, who can sleep in this heat this night?
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Tell me will I ever learn?
It’s too late, the rush is on
Both ends burning and I can’t control
The fires raging in my soul tonight
Oh will it never end?
Put your foot around the bend
Drive me crazy to an early grave
Tell me what is there to save tonight?
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Keep on burning ’til the end
Until the end
Both ends burning ’til the end
Until the end
Keep on burning ’til the end, ’til the end
Both ends burning ’til the end
The very end
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