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No One Could Ever Say (That We Didn't Start A Fire)

from Working With Your Hands by Trevor Clawson

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No Could Ever Say (That we didn't start a fire)

The bells are ringing out from the cathedral
The sun is going down, won't be long till it gets dark
The evening starlight shines in the January sky
The water's freezing over in the fountains in the park

We've abandoned all our new year's resolutions
Same thing every year, that's the way it seems to be
The books we said we'd read lie unopened on the shelves
We eat our TV dinners dream our coach potato dreams

And I wonder when it was that we stopped trying
And settled for whatever life we had
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
We started up a fire and then we let it burn away

You're putting on your makeup by the mirror
And putting on that dress, you wore for new year's eve
It's a tonic for the eye but its trouble for the mind
Because I don't think that you're wearing it for me

And last night I had a dream of Amy
She was standing in the kitchen as real as you or me
She looked me in the eye and said you're letting yourself slide
You should have stuck with me and lived a life less ordinary

And she told that I could have been much braver
The story of my life I said, she didn't even smile

But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
We started up a fire and then we let it fade away

We put our glad rags on and go out dancing
To remind ourselves of better times and what we used to be
We take a taxi home and look at out the snow
I smile as I remember the first time that we met
Another January in another lifetime
We only shared a bed, I think, to keep us from the cold

But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
But no one could ever say we didn't start a fire
Maybe somewhere it's burning still

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from Working With Your Hands, released April 1, 2021
Written by Trevor Clawson

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Trevor Clawson is an Irish singer and songwriter, currently living and working in West Sussex. Described by Time Out as "One of the best songwriters around" he combines folk, blues and jazz guitar styles with narrative lyrics.

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