《Naked to the Flame》歌词

[00:00:00] Naked To The Flame - Peter Hammill

[00:00:01] Written by：Peter Hammill

[00:00:17] She was waxed up to face the camera

[00:00:22] Like butter wouldn't melt

[00:00:26] In the back room agencies hammered

[00:00:29] Out a deal points on the pelt

[00:00:36] In the airlessly frenzied atmosphere

[00:00:40] She was the mistress of misrule

[00:00:44] Seeming careless of everything

[00:00:47] Except her look cooler than cool

[00:00:56] And she's singing for her supper

[00:01:01] And she's dancing in the dark

[00:01:05] And she's running for her life if she but knew it

[00:01:13] And though her heart is hard as stone

[00:01:18] That's still the flint from which she'll spark

[00:01:24] Like a moth to the flame

[00:01:28] She was so eager to make it

[00:01:32] Her ambition became naked

[00:02:05] How iconically arched the eyebrow pluck

[00:02:09] How vaselined the lens

[00:02:13] Now ironically even highbrow critics

[00:02:17] Rush to her defence

[00:02:25] And she's spinning in the spotlight

[00:02:31] But increasingly confused

[00:02:34] About the context that she finds

[00:02:39] Herself wrapped up in

[00:02:43] Is it in this skin she's living or in the last one

[00:02:49] She abused

[00:02:53] Nothing quite like a dame was

[00:02:58] She the broken or the breaking

[00:03:03] The girl the woman became

[00:03:08] Naked

[00:03:49] I preferred her in anonymity

[00:03:53] But now that cover's blown

[00:03:57] And absurdly she stars eponymously

[00:04:01] Cast it's salome's show

[00:04:14] Oh be careful what you wish for

[00:04:19] As your own head might get turned

[00:04:24] You might find the biter bit before you know it

[00:04:32] Though ever eager for the spotlight

[00:04:35] She was never quite ready to be burned

[00:04:41] At the end of the game the signature

[00:04:47] Dish will get plated

[00:04:52] She'll go out as she came

[00:04:58] Written in light as her fate is

[00:05:05] The moth discovers the flame's

[00:05:09] Naked