John R. Miller - Fire Dancer (Official Audio)

The official audio for John R. MIller’s “Fire Dancer” off his new album ‘Depreciated’.

“I came upon a group of traveling fire-spinners one nightyears back, and sat with them a while. We passed a bottle around while fiddle music was being played in a camp nearby, and one of them handed a pipe to me. “Medicine?” He asked.I obliged him, assuming this was weed. I took a drag from the pipe, the contents of which tasted something like lavender and electricity.I looked around, and all he said to me was, “do it again.''So I did. And the whole circle of them, and the fire in the center, began to change. Their faces were masks of enormous laughter, the whole scene turned into a spinning mandala, and I gently lay back and left my body behind. When I returned to it some 10 minutes later, they were all still there, laughing and talking and drinking and playing with fire, but things seemed different, somehow. I’d been gone only 10 minutes in our time, but “minutes” had ceased to exist for me, and I felt I had absorbed something, that these strangers had gifted me with a priceless experience.Months later as I found myself bumming around, looking for a warm couch anywhere I could find one, that experience guided me in a way I can’t quite describe.I never knew any of their names, and they never knew mine, but I am grateful to them for helping to light my way.”

Lyrics
I thought I was a traveler
I was only a little unspooled
I’d come back home and watch the world
Perched upon a wooden stool
Couldn’t make it as a dreamer
So I scorched the earth of my own farm
I was waiting for a reason to drop in
And sound the alarm

I read tomes of ancient secrets
That seemed to sparkle on the page
Illuminating insight
All but forgotten in a day
And I looked around and all I saw
Was all I thought there was to see
Like I was given to my choices
Like they weren’t given to me

Fire dancer, where did you come from
And where is it that you go when the morning comes?

There were nights with wiser spirits
Spent gathered around the fire
Searching for some meaning
Finding comfort in desire
You can give yourself to singing
At the expense of the song
And now when I go home
I never stay too long

Fire dancer, where did you come from
And where is it that you go when the morning comes?

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[SisterNo-No]

Lavender and electricity... sounds like West Coast medicine. BLESS 🧡

[APTennessee]

keep puttin put the music brotha. i feel incredibly blessed to have found your music, thanks u sir

[JRRedDawg]

Found your songs today. I really had thought that this level of visual story telling music had died with Leoux. I don't know who you are yet or where you came from but I'm captured by the sole. Subscribing to follow your journey because I know there a million others who will soon feel the same.