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Kate Tempest: Firesmoke

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    Performing "Firesmoke"
    off her album,
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    "The Book of Traps
    and Lessons,"
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    please welcome to the show
    Kate Tempest.
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    My visionary
    is a vision
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    I watch her dancing
    by the window
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    And it rips my flesh
    to ribbons
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    And the whole world
    is just ripples
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    In the middle, distant
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    I listen to her hips
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    I push my kisses
    to her lips
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    We move like
    we were born to move
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    The night is teeth
    and pistons
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    And there is something
    in this tenderness
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    That makes me
    want to live
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    It's Firesmoke
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    Her mouth sets free
    this captive
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    Come close to me
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    Free me
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    Untangle the madness
    that knots you
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    You drop to your knees
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    You crawl across me
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    You lick your lips softly
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    It's firesmoke
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    So, go on
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    Give me three days
    of your body and mine
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    Time is a blind eye
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    And I see your mind
    in my mind's eye
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    You make me immortal
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    You take me to space
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    You are a planet
    A place I've not known
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    Your body is home
    to rare gods
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    I kneel at their temple
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    Blown to bits
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    Gentle, ferocious
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    We are open
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    Explosives have nothing
    compared to these sparks
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    So, let's fall apart
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    And then,
    lie with me
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    Breathing
    in the den of the dark
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    It's firesmoke
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    Your mouth sets free
    this captive
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    Come close to me
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    Free me
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    Let me untangle the madness
    that knots you
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    I drop to my knees
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    I crawl across you
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    I tell you
    I've got you
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    It's firesmoke
    The fire rises between us
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    It makes us get on
    the wrong train
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    It makes us walk
    the wrong way
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    It makes strangers smile
    greetings on Lewisham Way
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    I bathe in this fire
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    It warms without burning
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    It compels without force
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    And it turns
    without turning the world
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    So, please
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    Keep your purpose, your poise,
    and your journey
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    I will be by the fire
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    Thinking nothing I've learned
    can prepare me
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    For everything else
    that needs learning
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    Is this how it feels
    to feel certain?
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    I don't know
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    It's just that for so many
    years my love's been a burden
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    But now comes this fire
    to cleanse and restore us
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    To fuel us and calm us
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    And push us both forwards
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    Forwards
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    Kate Tempest, folks.
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    "The Book of Traps and Lessons"
    is out now.
Title:
Kate Tempest: Firesmoke
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Musical guest Kate Tempest performs "Firesmoke” for Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
03:54
Alexandre Clemente edited English subtitles for Kate Tempest: Firesmoke
Alexandre Clemente edited English subtitles for Kate Tempest: Firesmoke
Alexandre Clemente edited English subtitles for Kate Tempest: Firesmoke

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