James Fire So Close

FIRE SO CLOSE

First released 1983

Fire So Close appears on the debut Jimone EP and is an anti-nuclear tirade looking at Wayne (the US) and Ivan (Soviet Union) facing each other. It was slowed down and renamed Why So Close for the Stutter LP three years later.

WHERE TO GET

Jimone 7" (FAC78)

Village Fire – Five Songs By James 12" (FAC138)

Fresh As A Daisy - The Singles (2 disc version)

LYRICS

Why so close

Big boys in black hats

Cowboys with white guns

White guns shoot blue white

Blue white baptism

No buffaloes

No Indians

No more buffaloes

Red sky is falling

Blue blood no stalling

White heat will strip you

No time to run far

Ivan's built a wall of lead round his house

Nobody can get in or out

Running out of food for ammunition

Frightened of the darkness

Sending out scouts

Why hang the fire so close

Why so close, so close

Wayne's got a wall that's much more subtle

Wore headphones since he was born

Watches Ivan through dark glasses

Hand on his gun waiting for the storm

One false move and we all fall down

No funeral games, no such fun

Here's your ticket to the party

That's what you get for playing with a gun

Six-gun so close

Ivan's got a wall of lead round his house