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Years ago, I watched my hometown burn. This song gave me hope. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY. ... It was the fire I got.” Waits’s words, just like his music, are steeped in practical poetry. They ...
The song "Digitalism in Cairo" samples The Cure's 1979 song "Fire in Cairo". The CD gives access to Opendisc where seven additional tracks can be downloaded. "Idealistic" was used by Rockstar Games in the announcement trailer for their video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles . [ 11 ]
The director of the hip-hop site The Flow noted that "Ты горишь как огонь" "was literally designed to fly to the top of the charts". [6] A journalist for the website Rap.ru also noted that it would «conquer the charts" and that the sound is "recognizable", especially the text about love and chorus lines, "You're burning, like fire.
The tune is used for a 20th-century American children's song with – like many unpublished songs of child folk culture – countless variations as the song is passed from child to child over considerable lengths of time and geography, the one constant being that the versions are almost always smutty. One variation, for example, is:
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or saw a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. [1]
"Night Boat to Cairo" is a song by British ska/pop band Madness from their debut 1979 album One Step Beyond.... It was written by Mike Barson and Suggs and was also included on the 1980 EP Work Rest and Play , which peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart and reached the top 30 in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands.
"Who by Fire" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1970s. It explicitly relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In synagogues, the prayer is recited during the High Holy Days . [ 3 ]
The Cairo fire (Arabic: حريق القاهرة), also known as Black Saturday, [3] [4] was a series of riots that took place on 26 January 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildings [5] —retail shops, cafes, cinemas, hotels, restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, and the city's Casino Opera —in downtown Cairo.