{"id":15,"date":"2016-10-05T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:04:18","slug":"the-city-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/the-city-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nTHE CITY FIRES<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry July 1970<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nAmidst the conflagrations<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLiving substances survive.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSquandering their energies<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the furnaces they do thrive.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMaking haste that\u2019ll only guarantee<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAn early grave.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nChorus.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd the cities burn<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAnd the cities burn<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAnd the cities burn<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna die<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna slowly die<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna slowly die too young<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nPreachers scream from the steeple<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThat we\u2019re heading for hell<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut tell me people if this place ain\u2019t worse than hell.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMaking waste; it\u2019ll only guarantee an early grave.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nBridge..<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe evil witch has cast her jinx<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nBeelzebub now rules.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\nPandemonium\u2019s the song he sings<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAs he swallows all you fools.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAnd he\u2019s gonna drink your blood<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAs your bodies slowly burn.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nChorus 2<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAs your bodies burn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAs your bodies burn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAs your bodies burn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna die<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna slowly die<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou\u2019re gonna slowly die too young<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the city fires.<\/span>
\n
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\n……….<\/span>
\n
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\nI was working at the GEC Telecommunications in Coventry and Pete Waterman, who was the shop steward and worked on the next section, put some music to a lyric I had written – A Lotta Rain is Fallin’ <\/i>and teamed me up with Billy Campbell, a bass player who also worked at the GEC and was in a band called Coconut Mat<\/span>
\n https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/bandsfromcoventry\/coventry-bands-a-to-z\/coventry-bands-c\/coconut-mat<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
\n
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\nI went to see the band and they were a heavy rock outfit and Billy asked me to write a lyric for the band. at the time Black Sabbath were new on the scene with a top selling first album and Led Zepplin’s Whole Lotta Love<\/i> was playing everywhere. So I thought I would write something in that vain, hearing Led Zeppelin power chords behind the lyric. However Billy reject the lyric saying ‘You can’t have a pop single with the word ‘Beelzebub’ in it!’. Forever ever after he nicked name me Beez le bub-as he pronounced it!<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nI hadn’t realised the band were thinking about a single, they never said and I didn’t think they had those kind of connections at that stage. However, I learnt later that Billy was in an early Coventry band called the Eggy with Roger and Nigel Lomas who had played in the hit band The Sorrows, and the Eggy had made a single – here. It hadn’t been a hit but they did have the connections. Nonetheless, I had to laugh 5 years later when Queen hit the No 1 spot with Bohemian Rhapsody – what word was in that song – yes ‘Beelzebub’. I’d loved to have seen Billy face when that came out – but also I’d lost contact with him by then.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n
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THE CITY FIRES \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry July 1970 Amidst the conflagrations Living substances survive. Squandering their energies In the furnaces they do thrive. Making haste that\u2019ll only guarantee An early grave. Chorus. And the cities burn And the cities burn … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}