It's hard to start a fire in the rain

6 days ago by @helenseviltwinMod · @stephenwordsmith

Liner Notes

Late to the bandwagon, but here I am.

I read these lyrics when Stephen first posted them and thought either heavy, heavy shouty or picky acoustic (I also thought I'd probably not be able to do it justice, and thought I'd wait until he posted some more lyrics, but obviously that idea was scuppered 😀), but when I came to actually work out how to play what I heard in my head, it seemed to fit a slightly aggressive folk style, so that's what I went with. "Will of well wrought iron" is surprisingly hard to sing.

Lyrics

There's nothing but the nothingness before the silver spark
That summons the illusions to illuminate the dark
The blood is cold, the spirit low, the mind a weathered plain
And it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

No matter how we wend the way, the first step's always trying
So armed with willing sticks of wood and will of well-wrought iron
And versed so well in what it takes to rub without refrain
But it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

The trickle through your fingertips of thoughts that hold too long
The shush of records broken on the promise of a song
The flicker of a line that leaps and falters just as fast
The sputter of a first light that could never hope to last

So once again we set our soul into the sparks that fly
To burden them with bursts of life, to burn alive and die
To help us find the fortitude to fall and rise again
For it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

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