Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
…on ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ I had this idea and said to Fripp, ‘Do you know what a Wimshurst machine is?’ It’s a device for generating very high voltages which then leap between the two poles, and it has a certain erratic contour, and I said, ‘You have to imagine a guitar line that has that, very fast and...
[Verse 1]
Brown Eyes and I were tired
We had walked and we had scrambled
Through the moors and through the briars
Through the endless blue meanders
[Refrain]
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon
[Verse 2]
Over the nights and through the fires
We went surging down the wires
Through the towns and on the highways
Through the storms in all their thundering
[Refrain]
The blue August moon
In the cool August moon
[Verse 3]
Then we rested in a desert
Where the bones were white as teeth, sir
And we saw St. Elmo's Fire
Splitting ions in the ether
[Guitar Solo]
[Refrain]
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon
In the cool August moon
In the cool August moon
[Instrumental Outro]
St. Elmo’s Fire was written by Brian Eno.
St. Elmo’s Fire was produced by Brian Eno.
Brian Eno released St. Elmo’s Fire on Mon Sep 01 1975.