Lyrics to
Burnin’ Sky

This version of Burnin’ Sky was released by Bad Company in 1977.

Our Decade Lyrics Bad Company profile has all of the Burnin’ Sky lyrics from 1977 and many more songs from the Bad Company discography that we have on file.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Bad Company or about the 1970s in general.

The sky is burnin’ I believe my soul’s on fire,
You are, I’m learning, the key to my desire.

Waiting for the van to arrive,
The prisoners were lined
up outside.
Jumped a wall, hitcheda ride, and
now I’m here
to say;
Love you, baby, anyway, oh, yeah.
The sky is burnin’ I believe my soul is on fire,
You are, I’m learning, the key to my desire.

Ran across the country fields,
In all terrain, they had guns and dogs and everything.
Swam a river try’n to lose my trail,
But they caught me, under the bridge. Oh yeah!

The sky is burnin’ I believe my soul’s on fire,
You are, I’m learning, the key to my desire.

Oh, yeah.

The sky is burnin’ I believe my soul’s on fire,
You are, I am learning, the key to my desire.

The judge said, ‘this man’s a danger to humanity,
We’re gonna lock him up and throw away the key’
Now, baby, your love has sent me to jail
But I’d rather die than see you with another man

It’s burnin’ baby, mm, mm; I believe my souls on fire

I believe my souls on fire,
Working on the railroad, every day
But they can’t keep me here
And I’m not gonna stay
I got to get outta this place
I’ll see you, baby.

It’s burnin’, yeah, it’s burnin’.
I believe my souls on fire,
Keep on burnin’,
Ah, yeah, yeah, ah, oh, oho. Keep on burnin’

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Bad Company?

Bad Company has released many songs over the years besides Burnin’ Sky. Bad Company released songs from 1974 to 1996 spanning across albums like Bad Company, Straight Shooter, Run With The Pack, Burnin' Sky, Desolation Angels, Rough Diamonds, Fame And Fortune, Dangerous Age, Holy Water, Here Comes Trouble, Company Of Strangers, and Stories Told & Untold. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bad Company.

If you're a fan of 1970s music looking for more songs from 1977 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Burnin’ Sky by Bad Company

When you decide to study the lyrics to Burnin’ Sky, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Bad Company. Some of the lyrics to Burnin’ Sky have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bad Company and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Burnin’ Sky if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Burnin’ Sky" means the words set to the music of Burnin’ Sky, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bad Company. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Burnin’ Sky and the lyrics to Burnin’ Sky are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bad Company who came here looking just for the lyrics to Burnin’ Sky, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Bad Company

Visit our Bad Company profile for more Bad Company songs, lyrics & info!

)