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Kevin Pakulis: Music

small fire

(Kevin Pakulis/Larry Lee Lerma)
SMALL FIRE

I KNEW THE TIME WAS COMIN'
I SAW IT FROM MILES AWAY
I WAS GOOD FOR YOU
AND YOUR POETRY
I BUILT A SMALL FIRE
IN MY YARD TONIGHT
I'M GETTIN' DOWN TO IT
WITH ALL MY MIGHT

SMALL FIRE
IN THE SAND
IT'S ALRIGHT
I UNDERSTAND

WE DRANK THE GOOD TEQUILA
WE SANG DIRE STRAIGHTS
WE WALKED RIGHT IN LIKE WE OWNED THE PLACE
FOR ONE FINE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY
WE WERE KING AND QUEEN
YOU WERE LIKE SOMETHING THAT NAVAJO COP HAD
NEVER EVER SEEN

CHORUS

THE FLAME IS DYIN'
NO LIGHT NO VERSE
AND I'M SITTIN' HERE WONDERIN'
WHAT THE HELL'S GONNA BECOME OF THIS PILE OF WORDS
'CAUSE IT WAS ALL THE BEAUTY
THAT I COULD STAND
THESE LINES AND RHYMES
ON PAPER IN THE SAND

CHORUS