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Rating: Burn is a limbo.
It plunges your head underwater, and when you realize you can breathe, you're stuck there.
Written and arranged in two days, mainly by Robert and Boris, for the soundtrack of the film/legend "The Crow" with Brandon Lee.
The accidental death of the latter on the set, who was to marry after filming, as many know, ended up guaranteeing the immortality of the film.
A film based on the namesake comic by James O'Barr, who, just like the protagonist Eric Draven, lost his partner and wrote to express this very sad story.
The song is disarmingly gloomy, typical of Smith, and wouldn’t have looked out of place on a The Cure album’s tracklist, INDEED.
Just like the plot of the work, you are hurled into an atmosphere of rain and flames. Redemption and condemnation run along your spine.
One of the first panels of the comic is quoted:
Don't look, don't look!
And the shadows breathing pull you away from your beloved, because the only truth is the inexorable end.
That guitar and those percussions have something tremendously magical and epic.
I consider it the Cure song that conveys the most anxiety, pain. A sense of bewilderment, inner defeat, and loss. You cannot escape.
They have never performed it live and, as in many cases, it remains a hidden gem, unjustly, in the opinion of the writer.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Burn (00:00)
'Don't look don't look,' the shadows breathe
Whispering me away from you
'Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
You know that you will always lose
This trembling
Adored
Tousled birdmad girl...'
But every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again
'Oh don't talk of love,' the shadows purr
Murmuring me away from you
'Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is all that's ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do...'
Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end
'Just paint your face,' the shadows smile
Slipping me away from you
'Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep a while
You must be tired...'
But every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again
Every night I burn
Scream the animal scream
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream
Every night I burn
Scream the animal scream
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream...
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