Jim Peterik/Frankie Sullivan)

Published by Easy Action Music - ASCAP/Rude Music, Inc. - BMI



I can feel a strong desire

A distant fire burning through the past

Deep inside my heart is yearning

A bridge is burning

There's just no turning back



After all the hell I've tasted

Years I've wasted

Love that slipped away

Suddenly a vision shook me

I see the fool I'd become content to play

Over one-way streets in blindin' heat

I carry this torch alone

I ask for no directions home



You can call out my name but I won't return

I'm a fugitive of love and this heart's been burned

Oh, burning bridges behind me

You can follow me down but it's plain to see

I'm a victim of the burn and it's third degree

Oh, setting bridges on fire



I will go to any length

To find the strength

To face the night alone

Standing on the edge of time

I cross the line

My heart becomes my own

Gonna tell you why you're a fool to try

To cross a burning bridge

It's a long hard fall from the top of the ridge



You can call out my name but I won't return

I'm a fugitive of love and this heart's been burned

Oh, burning bridges behind me

You can follow me down but it's plain to see

I'm a victim of the burn and it's third degree

Oh, setting bridges on fire



You can call out my name but I won't return

I'm a fugitive of love and this heart's been burned

Oh, burning bridges behind me

You can follow me down but it's plain to see

I'm a victim of the burn and it's third degree

Oh, setting bridges on fire

Oh, burning bridges behind me

Oh, burning bridges on fire, on fire, oh, oh