Released in 1997
After heavy light years - Fire / Rain
Written by Paul McCartney
Last updated on July 8, 2020
Released in 1997
Written by Paul McCartney
Last updated on July 8, 2020
Album This song officially appears on the Standing Stone Official album.
Timeline This song was officially released in 1997
Timeline This song was written, or began to be written, in 1994, when Paul McCartney was 52 years old)
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
Mar 03 & 04, 1997
"Standing Stone" recording sessions
Apr 30, May 01 & May 02, 1997
This Allegro Energico is the first track of the first movement – entitled “After Heavy Light Years” – of Paul McCartney’s Standing Stone, released in 1997.
After heavy light years
of tenacious trajectory
a ball of fire spat through space
spitting sparks and flames
at new blue universe.
The rains came and came
and extinguished livid flames.
A resistant hiss.
Brooding underground,
a sullen skulking sulk.
Still air hung still.
Silent peaks draped with mist.
A rumbling distance, flash lit
rain soaked slopes; valleys
filled with long quiet lakes.
Still air hung still.
Soothed land lay damp.
Reflecting water skimmed the blue
it was hurled through.
Down low toes of ocean rock
streams of lava froze in shock,
arms locked
round stone lover.
Wept sky swept and grey.
A rainbow bridge
cuts mountain tops.
Souped in pea green
a single cell bulb flicked
to life.
Cell burst,
a shot blot page on time,
and grew to be
all living things.
*Lyrics taken from the whole of Movement I - After Heavy Light Years
