“Your Head Is On Fire” is Broken Bells' first obvious nod to a group whose influence is plainly evident throughout the album: Gorillaz (just listen to the first 5 seconds of “The Ghost Inside”). The song’s title is an homage to a Gorillaz track with an appropriately dark existential tale in light of...
[Chorus]
Run and hide, your head's on fire
Whirling masses, rolling ashes
Dream of morning, grey earth dawning
Life in stasis, 40 paces
[Verse]
To turn away from the night
Allowing the light alone
Is surely fooling yourself
Leaving half on the shelf
You’ll never know
How low an angry heart can go
So hold onto that certain hand
As we’re turning in
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Does anybody else here
Feel that fear?
That none of all these good things had to be?
Or is it just me?
Your Head Is On Fire was written by Danger Mouse & James Mercer.
Your Head Is On Fire was produced by Danger Mouse.
Broken Bells released Your Head Is On Fire on Fri Mar 05 2010.