Chords:OMWF-Corrections-Buffy Musical-Walk Through the Fire
Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player
Song Title: Walk Through the Fire
Music and Lyrics: Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title: Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season: 6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate: November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by: Jeff Burke the Bassoon
Player<jeffbsn...@bdkw.yi.org>
Thanks To: Jörg Plate at http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.
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Walk Through the Fire
Joss Whedon
Tempo : 101 bpm
Key : F
{Intro}
C|Bb |Bb | Dm |Dm
{VERSE 1}
|Dm |C
BUFFY: I touch the fire and it freezes me.
|Bb Eb |C
I look into it and it's black.
|Dm
Why can't I feel?
|Bm7(b5)
My skin should crack and peel.
|Dm C |Bb
I want the fire back.
{VERSE 2}
|Dm |C
Now through the smoke, she calls to me.
|Bb Eb |C
To make my way across the flame.
|Dm F |G7/B
To save the day or maybe melt away,
|Dm C |Bb
I guess it's all the same.
{CHORUS}
|F C |Bb
So I will walk through the fire
|F C |Bb
'Cause where else can I turn?
|F C |Bb
I will walk through the fire
C
And let it...
{VERSE 3}
|Dm |C
SPIKE: The torch I bear is scorching me.
|Bb Eb |C
Buffy's laughing, I've no doubt.
|Dm F
I hope she fries;
|G7/B
I'm free if that bitch dies.
|Dm C |Bb
I better help her out.
{CHORUS}
|F C |Bb
SWEET: 'Cause she is drawn to the fire.
|F C |Bb
SWEET:Some people never learn.
SPIKE: She will never learn.
|F C |Bb
SWEET:And she will walk through the fire
SPIKE:And she will walk through the fire
C
SWEET:And let it...
SPIKE:And let it...
{BRIDGE}
| Bb
GILES:Will this do a thing to change her?
|Bb6
Am I leaving Dawn in danger?
|Dm/A G F |Gsus2
Is my Slayer too far gone to care?
|Bb
XANDER:What if Buffy can't defeat it?
|Gm
ANYA:Beady Eyes is right! We're needed.
|Asus4 Gm |G
ANYA:Or we could just sit around and glare.
|C
ALL:We'll see it through,
|Bb
It's what we're always here to do.
|F C |Bb
So we will walk through the fire.
{VERSE 4}
|Dm |C
BUFFY:So one by one they turn from me.
|Bb Eb |C
BUFFY: I guess my friends can't face the cold.
TARA: What can't we
|Dm F |G7/B
BUFFY: But why I froze, not one among them knows
TARA: face. If we're to-
|Dm C |Bb
BUFFY: And never can be told.
TARA: ge - ther?
{VERSE 5}
|Dm
SWEET: So one by one, they
ANYA: She came from the grave much graver.
|C
SWEET: come to me.
SPIKE:First he'll kill her, then I'll save her.
| Bb Eb |C
SWEET: The distant redness as their guide.
TARA: Everything is turning out so dark.
BUFFY: going through the
|Dm F
SWEET: That single flame Ain't
BUFFY:motion...
SPIKE:No, I'll save her, then I'll kill her!
|G7/B
SWEET: what they had in mind.
WILLOW:I think this line's mostly filler.
BUFFY: go - ing through the
|Dm C |Bb
SWEET: It's what they have in-side.
GILES:What it going to take to strike a spark?
BUFFY:motion...
|C
BUFFY:These endless days
|Bb
BUFFY: Are finally ending in a blaze.
SWEET:She will come
{CHORUS}
|F C |Bb
ALL: And we are caught in the fire.
SWEET: to me.
|F C |Bb
ALL:The point of no re-turn.
|F C |Bb
So we will walk through the fire
C |Db |C
And let it... burn.
|Db |C
Let it burn.
|Db |Db |F |Dm(sus2) ||
Let it burn. Let it burn!
<SWEET:Show time...>
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