Naked To The Flame-Peter Hammill

[ti:Naked To The Flame] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Singularity] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Naked To The Flame - Peter Hammill [00:01.76]Written by：Peter Hammill [00:02.96] [00:17.89]She was waxed up to face the camera [00:21.16] [00:22.00]Like butter wouldn't melt [00:24.52] [00:26.36]In the back room agencies hammered [00:29.57]Out a deal points on the pelt [00:33.58] [00:36.14]In the airlessly frenzied atmosphere [00:40.06]She was the mistress of misrule [00:42.99] [00:44.31]Seeming careless of everything [00:47.50]Except her look cooler than cool [00:52.08] [00:56.19]And she's singing for her supper [01:01.11]And she's dancing in the dark [01:05.35]And she's running for her life if she but knew it [01:12.04] [01:13.61]And though her heart is hard as stone [01:18.14]That's still the flint from which she'll spark [01:22.53] [01:24.00]Like a moth to the flame [01:26.52] [01:28.27]She was so eager to make it [01:30.77] [01:32.70]Her ambition became naked [01:37.11] [02:05.77]How iconically arched the eyebrow pluck [02:09.70]How vaselined the lens [02:12.07] [02:13.39]Now ironically even highbrow critics [02:17.53]Rush to her defence [02:21.35] [02:25.15]And she's spinning in the spotlight [02:30.19] [02:31.18]But increasingly confused [02:34.62]About the context that she finds [02:39.18]Herself wrapped up in [02:41.51] [02:43.28]Is it in this skin she's living or in the last one [02:49.94]She abused [02:51.60] [02:53.02]Nothing quite like a dame was [02:58.47]She the broken or the breaking [03:00.84] [03:03.62]The girl the woman became [03:07.28] [03:08.34]Naked [03:08.91] [03:49.41]I preferred her in anonymity [03:52.89] [03:53.56]But now that cover's blown [03:56.03] [03:57.55]And absurdly she stars eponymously [04:01.50]Cast it's salome's show [04:06.34] [04:14.48]Oh be careful what you wish for [04:19.44]As your own head might get turned [04:23.34] [04:24.59]You might find the biter bit before you know it [04:29.58] [04:32.90]Though ever eager for the spotlight [04:35.64]She was never quite ready to be burned [04:39.41] [04:41.27]At the end of the game the signature [04:47.37]Dish will get plated [04:48.99] [04:52.42]She'll go out as she came [04:55.00] [04:58.80]Written in light as her fate is [05:01.87] [05:05.06]The moth discovers the flame's [05:09.02]Naked