This was written in early October 1987, just a few weeks after Barbara and I started seeing each other. My band EBA played it really well, and it was musically challenging and interesting because of the way it shifts from 4/4 to 3/4 in the chorus while Jon keeps steady 16th notes on the hi-hat. Unfortunately, there are no studio recordings of it made by EBA --just some live gig tapes I haven't digitized. The original recording was a one-man-overdubbing-band version done in Warren Road Studio soon after writing it, which you can compare here. This recording was done in 2005 for my album refresher, which is entirely re-recordings of favorite older songs. I started with programming sampled drums in Logic's UltraBeat, learning how to insert time signature changes and trying to copy the way Jon always played it. Then I added acoustic guitar, bass, two electric guitar tracks, vocals, and backing vocals. I intended to get Jon to replace the sampled drums with real drums like he did for a lot of the songs on 'refresher' but we never got to this one.
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Barbara's and my 25th wedding anniversary is coming up December 1st. The fire still burns.
Thanks for listening!
-Andy
fire I see your face on the walls calling me out night ink falls I saw a spark in your eyes set me on fire see the moon on the rise sets me on fire where are you now in this heat lonely starfield incomplete I saw a star in the sky set me on fire I saw a spark in your eyes set me on fire in the moonshine hypnotized by the water we've arrived we touch a dream realized we are on fire look up at the sky! tantalizing we are on fire ©1987 by Andy Wyatt words and music by Andy Wyatt on 8 October 1987 additional music credit to EBA, and the Beatles for the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" quote near the end