When The Fire Comes Gertjan Wijnalda, june 2003 about this song when the fire comes in a relationship it is time to run away or to start fighting for it - a common theme in my songs (e.g. a lipstick under a pillow). when you choose not to, it all ends in a blaze. the end of this song is an instrumental build up with a minute long guitar solo, which symbolizes the fire in the heart of people that might lead to an outburst and a radical change in everybody's life. listen to it   [ realaudio ] there is currently no recording of this song available. When The Fire Comes (G.L. Wijnalda) There's a place I used to live A couple of days a week She said now I cannot visit anymore There's some guys I used to see A couple of nights a month She says now I cannot speak them anymore Now everything is broken Everything is smoking When the fire comes There's the rage inside of everyone That comes climbing up the walls That we built ourselves Secure for everybody There's the fire inside our hearts That we've always tried to tame Yet we never found a way to get it settled down Now everything is broken Everything is smoking When the fire comes Everything is broken All is left unspoken When the fire comes You know there's no way we can excuse All the things we've said and done When the fire came You know there's lessons to be learned Of things that vanished while they're written in the sand by the sea Oh, and everything you say can and will be used against you In the court of love And there's the ashes of our lifes together The ruins that I'm bleeding on After the fire burned away your heart I used to look in mirrors Until a little while ago When I didn't know at all what I'd been looking for And I've never realised the amount of reality in life Oh, I only got a glimpse of how it could've been Now everything is broken Everything is smoking When the fire comes Everything is broken All is left unspoken When the fire comes Chorus