In The Fire

Story Behind The Song

Written in a few hours in my vintage airstream trailer in the California desert. I just woke up and said "I've got to write a song today", so I started practicing my guitar and found a riff and away we went!

Song Description

Singer is longing for the connection of the free love and community of San Francisco. On a virtual journey, she travels back to her childhood in Chicago, noticing how was free there in her youthful innocence. The city and girlfriend there are smashed together in the metaphor of "wife to be" and beckoned to come hither while the iron os hot!

Song Length 3:36 Genre Folk - Rock, Pop - Rock
Tempo Fast (151 - 170) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood In High Spirits, Affable Subject Conformity, Hot, Fire, Heat
Similar Artists Shawn Colvin, Melissa Etheridge Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

My Hopes, my dreams, my everlasting love
Are all caught up in this scene that is not well thought of
by ones who have said it's all in my head

So I gotta go to San Francisco
Like route 66 for 66 hours
Watch my back I'm on the wrong track
Now I'm winding my way back to Chicago to Chicago

remember childhood there when I'm not to scared to try to be free

My mind, my heart acting like I already know
The sun it shines so
I gotta go to San Francisco
Any way to go to San Francisco

Well I see salvation there and I'm not too shy to try to be free
I sense censors coming but no, we're all gonna do it anyway

My wife to be - that's not to say
That she's not already feeling quite that way
Somebody said, get back to your bed
You gotta work, work, get it right, keep going all night
Driving up the left coast
Is it right here, in San Francisco

Somebody find her my favorite iron is in the fire
I'm out stranded my beautiful flame is dying by the hour

Lyrics Allison Cornell Music Allison Cornell
Producer Allison Cornell Publisher Allison Cornell
Performance Allison Cornell

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