Sex On Fire Lyrics
Lay where you're layin'
Don't make a sound
I know they're watchin'
They're watchin'
All the commotion
The kiddie-like play
It has people talkin'
Talkin'
[Chorus]
You
Your sex is on fire
[Verse 2]
The dark of the alley
The breakin' of day
Head while I'm drivin'
I'm drivin'
Soft lips are open
Them knuckles are pale
Feels like you're dyin'
You're dyin'
[Chorus]
You
Your sex is on fire
Consumed
With what's to transpire
Hot as a fever
Rattlin' bones
I could just taste it
Taste it
If it's not forever
If it's just tonight
Oh, we're still the greatest
The greatest, the greatest
[Chorus]
You
Your sex is on fire
You
Your sex is on fire, ah
Consumed
With what's to transpire
And you
Your sex is on fire
Consume
With what's to transpire
About
Kings of Leon released their fourth album later the month on this release, their second in successive years, and by rights the Nashville quartet would’ve be running short on ideas by now. Their brand of whiskey-stained Southern rock could only be entertaining for so long, right?
Well, actually, wrong. “Sex on Fire” proves there was still plenty of fuel in the Followill clan’s tank and more than justifies their recent leap to festival headliner status.
Q&A
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There’s always been an element of sex in our music, so I thought I’d just wrap it all up in one song and be done with the sex for the rest of the record. I can’t believe the label picked it because the lyrics are pretty in-your-face sexual. I think my girlfriend hopes it’s based on her. Maybe it is my girlfriend because we’ve had some good times together… but I’m not really sure. It’s about a great sexual relationship with hot, hot sex that you remember forever.
They were just kind of dummy lyrics. Depending on whether a song starts with a melody or starts with lyrics, you know if it starts with a melody you just keep playing the melody over and over until you get it down and just throw in any lyrics that fit the verbal flow. Sex On Fire was just kind of a little lyric just to fill in to kill some time until we could actually write something that wasn’t about sex and fire.
- 1.Closer
- 2.Crawl
- 3.Sex On Fire
- 4.Use Somebody
- 5.Manhattan
- 6.Revelry
- 7.17
- 8.Notion
- 9.I Want You
- 10.Be Somebody
- 11.Cold Desert
- 12.Frontier City