People seem to forget, or ignore, this is a place to talk about MEANINGS, in other words, not about musical appreciation, personal tastes or the instrumentals.
Fact: there is nothing about metaphors in this song. It's plain context of the Middle Age and the perverse hunt for "witches".
I think that the most thing to cause misinterpretation about those lyrics is the fact that they depict a cast of characters, many people talking.
There is someone who sees that a woman is to be burned (as a witch) because people think that she has put the city on fire (or imputed for other crimes). This person seems rather convinced that this is an terrible error!
The woman is set to be killed (assassinated) by the sentence of being "witch". They strapped her and put fire at straws to burn her, just like the image we have, of a Joana D'Arc for example.
The FLAMES REACH HIGHER, and THAT causes the fire to spread all over the city. Maybe there were too many straws and wood all around the cities, and wind too.
The woman just alleged innocence, while people were thinking that she was responsible for the burning all of city, that she had to do with devil and other foolish nonsense and scapegoating.
While the fire was spreading all over the city, it was clear that people had no time left to save themselves. They had even no CANNED WATER, thing that so many later was introduced to Europe brought up from the Orient.
The very MADNESS of the content of the song is that people continued to claim the woman (women) to be BURNED, as their own city was being BURNED TOO, but the HATE was so much stronger that they didn't care anymore for their homes and lives, they just wanna see the figure that they blamed as the only reason to their doom, the Woman, to be burned.
The woman, in sigh of total despair, as someone who is seeing the insanity of the whole society were she lived in, just could lament herself, maybe as saying to herself that THAT human beings have no more salvation for themselves, and her lament: "Burn!"
Not Vengeance! Not Witchcraft! No fault or guilty from that women! No Supernatural! Only lament!
The other hand, people drowning and dying in their self inflicted fire and hatred, still shouting "Burn!"
People seem to forget, or ignore, this is a place to talk about MEANINGS, in other words, not about musical appreciation, personal tastes or the instrumentals.
Fact: there is nothing about metaphors in this song. It's plain context of the Middle Age and the perverse hunt for "witches".
I think that the most thing to cause misinterpretation about those lyrics is the fact that they depict a cast of characters, many people talking.
There is someone who sees that a woman is to be burned (as a witch) because people think that she has put the city on fire (or imputed for other crimes). This person seems rather convinced that this is an terrible error!
The woman is set to be killed (assassinated) by the sentence of being "witch". They strapped her and put fire at straws to burn her, just like the image we have, of a Joana D'Arc for example.
The FLAMES REACH HIGHER, and THAT causes the fire to spread all over the city. Maybe there were too many straws and wood all around the cities, and wind too.
The woman just alleged innocence, while people were thinking that she was responsible for the burning all of city, that she had to do with devil and other foolish nonsense and scapegoating.
While the fire was spreading all over the city, it was clear that people had no time left to save themselves. They had even no CANNED WATER, thing that so many later was introduced to Europe brought up from the Orient.
The very MADNESS of the content of the song is that people continued to claim the woman (women) to be BURNED, as their own city was being BURNED TOO, but the HATE was so much stronger that they didn't care anymore for their homes and lives, they just wanna see the figure that they blamed as the only reason to their doom, the Woman, to be burned.
The woman, in sigh of total despair, as someone who is seeing the insanity of the whole society were she lived in, just could lament herself, maybe as saying to herself that THAT human beings have no more salvation for themselves, and her lament: "Burn!"
Not Vengeance! Not Witchcraft! No fault or guilty from that women! No Supernatural! Only lament!
The other hand, people drowning and dying in their self inflicted fire and hatred, still shouting "Burn!"
Take care of yourselves!
Rafael