Roky Erickson - Burn The Flames (1985)

[Recorded 1982] 

What's up vampires and skeletons, How are we tonight? Well here's a magical song by Roky well after his 13th Floor Elevators days. This is an absolute slow burn classic of a song, featured on The Return Of The Living Dead soundtrack. The pacing and the pausing really brings out every instrument and holy hell the guitar solos, the laughing, the Vibes on this one are so genuine.

 

 

Here I sit, a vampire at my piano
The flames burn glaringly higher
And the eyes that stare through the darkness
Though they have no form
There's no need for alarm

So burn
So burn, burn the flames
Higher and higher
So burn, burn the flames
Never to expire

Here I sit, a skeleton at my organ
The candles in my candelabra burning hellishly, hellish hell
And the laughter unending echoes through the haunted house
A little Christmas spirit, ghostly haunting deadly spirit
Every creature is stirring
Even the mouse

So burn
So burn, burn the flames
Higher, higher, higher, and higher
So burn, burn the flames
Never to expire

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So burn, burn the flames
Higher, higher, higher, and higher
So burn, burn the flames
Never to expire

Here I sit myself at my instruments
Here they sit at their instruments
And the music fills and fills
Terrifies, horrifies, forever scares
The children of the night
What music we make

So burn
So burn, burn the flames
Higher and higher
So burn, burn the flames
Never to expire