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Finch - What it is to burn No matter how many times I hear this song, I always see a cinematic.
It begins with a view of the ether, tainted red smoke as one approaches an old television screen filled with the terrible scenes of war that plague the world. SHE BURNS! As the scenes fill the screen, an angel falls from the stars towards Earth. Today's on fire the sky is bleeding above me... and I am blistered. As he falls he sets fire to the heavens and changes the rain to blood--it is the end of the world. He impacts and everything around him is burned, nothing to him happens. I walk these lines of blasphemy...every day... and still... He walks the streets, none able to see his wide wings that cross both side of the street. Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her. She's the only one who knows what it is to burn. Unknown to him, a young woman, cries in pain, feeling the hurt that the angel does not. I feel diseased. Is there no sympathy from the sun? Around him he passes by people looting, rioting, killing... His wings extend above everyone and none see it. The sky still fires, but I am safe in here from the world outside. So tell me what's the price to pay for glory. The world is still at war with itself, tanks, mortars, machines of death propagate the end. The woman whispers some unheard prayer and leaps out of her window to the street and the angel sees. Like a bad star I'm falling faster down to her. She's the only one who knows what it is to burn. The angel rushes to her and the wings gain white flames and the people stop, they finally see what they are doing. The angel holds her, remembering her from some past life, past love. Holding tighter than dear life, he screams to the heavens and hells of the after life. He casts deadly glares to the people around him, and they cry for her. He holds her in his arms and raises his wings as far to the heavens as they can reach. Today is fire and she burns. Today is fire and she burns... SHE BURNS! SHE BURNS! SHE BURNS! SHE BURNS! SHE BURNS! SHE BURNS! He races towards the burning heavens and fills the world with his sadness, filling the fear of death into these people. He dives towards the Earth, whirlpooling the fires, the deaths, and the blood with him. Like a bad star I'm falling faster down to her. She's the only one who knows what it is to burn. He opens a hole into the earth near her body and the flames carry with him. His wings rip and burn in orange flames. As he falls into the eternal fires of this hell he sees her soul rising out reaching her own body. One life for another, she will live. As she rises, the world is gray and light snow falls.
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