The Cure
Burn

THE REVIEW

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.