Talk:Set the Fire to the Third Bar

message: The section on Cheryl Cole got me thinking about the guest vocalists this song has been performed with. Lisa Hannigan performed the song at the Olympia Theatre gigs in Dublin this week. The gig in Killarney on Saturday featured actress Maria Doyle Kennedy, I'll try and find references and maybe see if I can put together a short paragraph on the various guest vocalists. -- Horkana (talk) 19:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guest vocalists 

message: The Charts section is a bit of a mess. Some editors keep creating a single table with multiple heading rows, instead of using a separate column for the year, which make for better sorting and comparison. 
The chart had a column labelled "Position" for brevity, but for correctness and clarity someone change this to Peak position, which I suppose is reasonable enough. Try to verify the chart information and thinking about Peak position lead me to ask some questions. 
Most of the information is sourced from aCharts. Looking at the information more closely it becomes clear that 18 is the highest position the song has ever achieved in the UK chart, and that the entry for 2007 is not a reentry but simply a continuation of the 12 week run beginning in 2006. On this basis I do not think the 2007 figures are really notable. 
Similarly I question the notability of the other chart reentries in other years. If any other positions are to be mentioned they will need additional citations to their notabiliy. Is the 2009 reentry to the British charts for the Charity re-release featuring Cheryl Cole? The aCharts source gives no indication, but if it was the case it might then be notable if it was cited. 
Tables are ugly. List are ugly. The Wikipedia style guide recommends prose again and again. Snow Patrol seem to linger in the Charts, I think one of their other songs has been in the charts for (nearly) a record amount of time. A section of prose describing the ups and the downs of their chart appearances might be an improvement to the article. 
For these reasons I've cut the table down to size, but you can take a look at the last full version of the table and add the other details back if you can find additional citations to show notability. -- Horkana (talk) 02:38, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charts 

message: I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths Jobby that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
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The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms--24.14.73.20 (talk) 22:30, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia song articles do not normally include the full lyrics. I'm not sure but I think it is due to copyright issues. It seems to be okay to quote a few select lyrics, to help explain the song meaning. See WikiProject_Songs to learn more. -- Horkana (talk) 16:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics