Lava

Album: The B-52's (1979)
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  • My body's burnin' like a lava from a Maura Loa
    My heart's crackin' like a Krakatoa
    Ooh Krakatoa, east of Java, molten bodies, fiery lava

    Fire, fire, burnin' bright
    Turn on your love lava
    Turn on your lava light
    Fire, oh volcano, over you
    Don't let your lava love turn to stone
    Keep it burnin'
    Keep it burnin' here at home

    Ooh hot lava
    Ooh hot lava

    My love may be as high as the highest volcano
    But the altitude is way too high
    Well it gets so cold when you look at me that way, yeah
    I just want to have that hot lava
    Lovin' me away

    My love's mountin'
    My love's eruptin' like a red hot volcano
    Fire, oh volcano, over you
    I gotta lotta lava love locked up inside me

    My love's a lava bomb
    Knock you in the head
    Knock you in the head
    Kick you in the bed
    (Over you) hot lava

    Oooo it's so hot
    Oh, It's burnin' up in here
    Oh oh look out, it's about to erupt
    Ooh ooh my body's burnin' like a lava from a Mauna Loa
    My heart is breakin' like a Krakatoa

    Hot fire, red-hot fire
    Lava, oh oh oh, oh oh, hot lava
    Hot lava, red-hot lava
    Hot lava, red, hot lava
    Oh hot lava

    I'm gonna let it go
    Let it flow like Pompeii or Herculaneum
    Let it sizzle, let it rise
    Don't let your lava love flow turn to stone
    Keep it burnin'
    Keep it burnin' here at home

    I'm gonna jump in a crater
    See ya later
    Ooh hot lava
    Ooh hot lava
    Hot lava
    Oh hot lava!
    Hot lava
    Red hot lava uh
    Yeah Writer/s: Catherine Pierson, Cynthia Wilson, Frederick Schneider, Julian Strickland, Rickey Wilson
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sentric Music
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Derek from ChicagoThe line "Krakatoa, East of Java" is more likely in reference to the 1968 film starring Maximillian Schell and Brian Keith, which was re-released as "Volcano" in the 1970s. The 1935 film is centered around a group of survivors shipwrecked on a tropical island, while the 1968 movie deals with a volcano and would have been more top of mind when the song was written in the late 1970s.
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