Marillion — Torch Song lyrics

Lyrics

--- Track 8 of _Clutching At Straws_ ---
Read some Kerouac and it put me on the tracks to burn a little brighter
Now.
It was something about roman canddles fizzin out, shine a little light on me Now,
I found a strange fascination with a liquid fixation
Alcohol can thrill me now
It’s getting late in the game to show any pride or shame
I just burn a little brighter now
Doctor says my liver looks like leaving with my lover,
I need another
Time out
now,
Like any sort of here turnin down to zero still standing out in any crowd
Pulling seventeen with experience and dreams, sweating out a happy hour,
Where you’re hiding 29 you know it ain’t a crime
To burn a little brighter now, burn a little brighter now
Dr. Finlay: And my advice is if you maintain this lifestyle you won’t reach
Torch: it’s a romantic way to go really, part of the heritage
It’s your round in’it
We burn a little brighter now
Read some Kerouac and it put me on the tracks to burn a Little brighter now
It was something about roman canddles fizzin out, shine
A little light on me now, I found a strange fascination
With a liquid fization, alcohol thrill me now
It’s getting late in the game to show any pride or shame
We burn a little brighter now, burn a little brighter now
(Virgin Airways, 747- Newark-Heathrow)