A Thread For "After The Fire" By Roger Daltrey (composed by Pete Townshend)

After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns
I heard a voice asking what happens after the fire
And then the sound of a breaking window and the scream of a tyre
And then the sound of a distant gun and the cry of a hungry child
The night is hot
But nothing's gonna stop
This gang going wild
After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns
I saw Matt Dillon in black and white there ain't no colour in memories
He rode his brother's Harley across the TV while I was laughing at Dom deLuise.
Now I'm cycling all my video tapes, I'm crying and I'm joking
I've gotta stop drinking
I've gotta stop thinking
I've gotta stop smoking
After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns
The fire still burns, raging through the pain
Blackening the promises the tears and the rain
The fire will burn
'Til the wind begins to turn
And it all begins again
After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tg4jQAZ_cw

because its time...

Not a terrible song. He sang a Bryan Adams-composed tune around this time.

And Bryan Ferry!

I'm a huge Who fan but I don't like this at all. I have no objection to the style of song or production (Bryan Adams' "Heaven" is actually one of my all-time favourite records) but this song is musically monotonous to me. Daltrey's voice sounds great and I like the lyrics, too. I just want to hear some different chords not that particular two-chord pattern going on endlessly. Still, plenty of people must have liked it because it went to No. 48 on the Billboard chart, which is pretty decent.

I dug this moderately at the time, since it was the closest thing to a new Who song since 1982 (and would be until 1989), but I found the production annoyingly bombastic. The Who was supposed to play this at Live Aid, but spent their one rehearsal day goofing off. There's a great (I'd say definitive) version on the Who's 1999 live album The Blues To The Bush.

Song's aight. I had this album years ago, picked it up in a dollar bin. Mostly liked it for the parade of drummers on the title track.

This and Under A Raging Moon were played to death on WNEW, the big NY classic rock station in the 80s. Literally every hour.