(You Will) Set the World On Fire

Album: The Next Day (2013)
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  • Midnight in the Village
    Seeger lights the candles
    From Bitter End to Gaslight
    Baez leaves the stage
    Ochs takes notes
    When the black girl and guitar
    Burn together hot in rage
    You've got what it takes
    You say too much

    Oh you will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    I can work the scene and
    I can see the magazines
    I can hear the nation
    I can hear the nation cry
    You will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    You will set it on fire

    Kennedy would kill for the lines that you’ve written
    Van Ronk says to Bobby "she’s the next real thing"
    Crouched in the half light, screaming like a banshee
    You’re in the boat babe, we're in the water
    You say too much

    Oh you will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    I can work the scene and
    I can see the magazines
    I can hear the nation
    I can hear the nation cry
    You will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    You will set it on fire

    Oh you will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    Oh I can work the scene and
    I can see the magazines
    I can hear the nation
    I can hear the nation cry
    You will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    You will set it on fire

    Oh you will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    I can work the scene and
    I can see the magazines
    Oh I can hear the nation
    I can hear the nation cry
    You will set the world babe
    You will set the world on fire
    You will set it on fire Writer/s: DAVID BOWIE
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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