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Armchair Apocrypha
Fiery Crash

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Fiery Crash

Release date: 20th March 2007

From Armchair Apocrypha

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About This Track

"Fiery Crash" is a track by Andrew Bird, from the album Armchair Apocrypha, released 20th March 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Fiery Crash

[Verse 1: Andrew Bird]

Turnstiles and mezzanine

Jetways and Dramamine fiends

And x-ray machines

You were hurling to space

G-forces twisting your face

Breeding superstition

A fatal premonition

You know you got to envision

The fiery crash

[Chorus]

Oh, close your eyes and you wake up

Face stuck to a vinyl settee

Oh, the line was starting to break up

Just as you were starting to say

Something apropos I don't know

[Verse 2]

Beige tiles and magazines

Lou Dobbs and the CNN team

On every monitor screen

You were caught in the crossfire

Where every human face

Has you reaching for your mace

So it's kind of an imposition

Fatal premonition

[Bridge]

To save our lives you've got to envision

And to save all our lives you've got to envision

The fiery crash

It’s just a formality

Why must I explain?

Just a nod to mortality

Before you get on a plane

[Chorus]

Oh, close your eyes and you wake up

Face stuck to a vinyl settee

Oh, the line was starting to break up

What was that you were going to say?

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Track details

From Armchair Apocrypha

2007

Album

Armchair Apocrypha

Release year

2007

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Credits

Writer: Andrew Bird
Producer: Andrew Bird, Ben Durrant
Bass: Chris Morrissey
Drums: Martin Dosh
Vocals: Andrew Bird
Background Vocals: Haley McCallum
Credited: Ben Durrant, Brent Sigmeth, Chris Morrissey, Haley McCallum, Martin Dosh, Roger Seibel
Electric Guitar: Andrew Bird, Ben Durrant
Mastering Engineer: Roger Seibel
Mixing Engineer: Ben Durrant, Brent Sigmeth
Recording Engineer: Ben Durrant
Rhodes Piano: Martin Dosh
Violin: Andrew Bird