Streets of Fire
Destroyer * Track #11 On We’ll Build Them a Golden Bridge
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Album We’ll Build Them a Golden Bridge
- #1Revolution
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- #2J. Tailor
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- #3Smith
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- #4I, as McCarthy
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- #5Mending Song
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- #6Leave Little Fiddler (Alone)
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- #7The Pornographers
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- #8War on Jazz
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- #9Islands in the Stream
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- #10Saddestroyer
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- #11Streets of Fire
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- #12Rose Fleched This
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- #13Breakin’ the Law
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- #14Whistlin’ Dixie (She Shoots)
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- #15Riots
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Streets of Fire by Destroyer
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It was a fun surprise to hear “Streets of Fire” resurrected on the 2005 New Pornographers album Twin Cinema.
By 2005, Destroyer’s small-batch 1996 debut We’ll Build Them a Golden Bridge was hard to find, and primarily heard via file-trades among desperate fans. It contained the first appearance of...
Streets of Fire Lyrics
Come on, come out of the rain
You're not impressed, you're just so learned
I took the book, I lit the page
Your sabbatical is burning
Sweet sweet sweet sweet fires in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips
Contessa -- I already quit
Some things work, but me I choose
To lose my skin in the dirt
This whiskey priest, he burned the church
To keep his girls alive
Sweet sweet sweet sweet fires in the street
Let's sully every stage we meet
Lick my lips, twist my hips
Contessa --
Sweet sweet sweet sweet fires in the street
Let's sully every stage we meet
Lick my lips, twist my hips
Contessa -- I already did