Riots in the burning street
Crystal night outside
Brutal music in the night, enough to make you cry
Nobody knows how it is to sleep and drown the world
I am the midnight snake to bite your little girls
Outside in the distance, the city in the fire
See the houses burning down, mile after mile
I don't think you know about your future yet
I don't think you're gonna like the one you're going to get
Ghost rider in the sky
Burner
You will never stop me, you won't shut me down
This ain't no circus and I sure don't need no clowns
I can see things that you can't see
I can be the one that you can't be
The one you've always seen, the one you never see
Burner
Beat me like a hammer, baby, stick me like a pig
Throw me to the lions, baby, wear me like a wig
I am not only one to walk into the fire
I cannot be beaten, I cannot be like you
I cannot be otherwise, no matter what you do
I am the voice of broken glass
I am the voice to dribe you mad at last
I am the truth, the liar turned around
Burner
Crystal night outside
Brutal music in the night, enough to make you cry
Nobody knows how it is to sleep and drown the world
I am the midnight snake to bite your little girls
See the houses burning down, mile after mile
I don't think you know about your future yet
I don't think you're gonna like the one you're going to get
Ghost rider in the sky
This ain't no circus and I sure don't need no clowns
I can see things that you can't see
I can be the one that you can't be
The one you've always seen, the one you never see
Throw me to the lions, baby, wear me like a wig
I am not only one to walk into the fire
I cannot be beaten, I cannot be like you
I cannot be otherwise, no matter what you do
I am the voice of broken glass
I am the voice to dribe you mad at last
I am the truth, the liar turned around
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It’s a song written about the Kristallnacht or The night of broken glass 9 Nov 1938 – 10 Nov 1938
@ssirrah1 Spot on! And let me expand upon this kind sir! "the operatives who attended to the crematorium, sometimes where called burners". P.178, The shortest History of Germany James Hawes. Hawes is referring to Aktion T4/ the mass murder of (alleged) 'life unworthy of life'; this was the model of mass murder that became the gas chambers of the Holocaust. "Throw me to the lions". A wider and more general reference the Christians vs lion entertain (myth of otherwise), and the Crusade of Richard the Lion Heart? This both opens and continues the theme of oppressive, destructive political...
@ssirrah1 Spot on! And let me expand upon this kind sir! "the operatives who attended to the crematorium, sometimes where called burners". P.178, The shortest History of Germany James Hawes. Hawes is referring to Aktion T4/ the mass murder of (alleged) 'life unworthy of life'; this was the model of mass murder that became the gas chambers of the Holocaust. "Throw me to the lions". A wider and more general reference the Christians vs lion entertain (myth of otherwise), and the Crusade of Richard the Lion Heart? This both opens and continues the theme of oppressive, destructive political force, to a wider European historic perspective.
"Burn 'er anyway", can only but evoke the Witch Trails of Europe.
MH's usual trademark bucolic and pastoral imagery, set to a pleasant rhythmic trot through leafy glades. :)