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Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies
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Dig for Fire

From Wave of Mutilation: Best of PixiesTrack 193:02

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"Dig for Fire" is a track by Pixies, from the album Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies. The track is 3:02 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Pixies.

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Lyrics

Dig for Fire

There is this old woman, she lives down the road
You can often find her kneeling inside of her hole
And I often ask her "Are you looking for the mother lode?"
No, no my child, this is not my desire and then she said

"I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire"

There is this old man who has spent so much of his life sleeping
That he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years
He resides, on a beach, in a town where I am going to live
And I often ask him "Are you looking for the mother lode?"
No, no my child, this is not my desire and then he said

"I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire"

I'm digging for fire fire fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire, for fire, for fire
I'm digging for, for fire

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Track details

From Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies

3:02

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Album

Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies

Track number

19

1Bone Machine
3:03
2Nimrod's Son
2:16
3The Holiday Song
2:15
4Caribou
3:14
5Broken Face
1:30
6Gigantic (Single Version)
3:14
7Vamos (Surfer Rosa Version)
4:18
8Hey
3:31
9Monkey Gone to Heaven
2:55
10Debaser
2:52
11Gouge Away
2:43
12Wave of Mutilation
2:04
13Here Comes Your Man
3:21
14Tame
1:56
15Where Is My Mind?
3:49
16Into the White
4:43
17Velouria
3:40
18Allison
1:18
19Dig for Fire
3:02
20U-Mass
3:01
21Alec Eiffel
2:50
22Planet of Sound
2:06
23Winterlong
3:07

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