There's a hard moon risin' on the streets tonight   There's a reckless feeling in your heart as you head out tonight   Through the concrete canyons to the midtown lights   Where the latest neon promises are burning bright      Past the open windows on the darker streets   Where unseen angry voices flash and children cry   Past the phony posers with their worn out lines   The tired new money dressed to the nines   The low life dealers with their bad designs   And the dilettantes with their open minds      You're out on the town, safe in the crowd   Ready to go for the ride   Searching the eyes, looking for clues   There's no way you can hide   The fire inside      Well you've been to the clubs and the discotheques   Where they deal one another from the bottom of a deck of promises   Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks   Do an acting stretch as a way to hide the obvious   And the lights go down and they dance real close   And for one brief instant they pretend they're safe and warm      Then the beat gets louder and the mood is gone   The darkness scatters as the lights flash on   They hold one another just a little too long   And they move apart and then move on      On to the street, on to the next   Safe in the knowledge that they tried   Faking the smile, hiding the pain   Never satisfied   The fire inside   Fire inside      Now the hour is late and he thinks you're asleep   You listen to him dress and you listen to him leave like you knew he would   You hear his car pull away in the street   Then you move to the door and you lock it when he's gone for good      Then you walk to the window and stare at the moon   Riding high and lonesome through a starlit sky   And it comes to you how it all slips away   Youth and beauty are gone one day   No matter what you dream or feel or say   It ends in dust and disarray      Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass   Waves rolling in with the tide   Dreams die hard and we watch them erode   But we cannot be denied   The fire inside