Like or dislike: Fire Burning

[Rickypt]

Originally Posted by David

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, Ryan...can you believe it??

Believe me, I've been thinking quite a bit about how many years have gone by since various events and for the first time in my life I'm starting to feel old. I wanted to go to this DD show, but I was still in trouble for staying too late at Stevie's Wild Heart show a few months earlier.

[foxyluva]

I like the song - the lyrics are great, but the music is just plain bad

[nightbird89]

This is the one song that i don't care for on osotm. it's just annoying, and the intro annoys me even more. there r good lyrics tho.

[TheBlueLamp]

Love it. Maybe it's not a deep melodramatic epic but it sure is a lot of fun. I think this is a great driving song. My favourite lyrics are

Well I understand your position...
I withdraw my decision
Well I've got no more information for you!

[Johnny Stew]

I like it quite a bit. It's one of those songs that isn't necessarily Earth-shattering, or anything that's going to impact someone's life in any meaningful way.
And yet... it's not just ear candy. There is something a little deeper going on there... something to be pondered and interpreted.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I like it quite a bit. It's one of those songs that isn't necessarily Earth-shattering, or anything that's going to impact someone's life in any meaningful way.
And yet... it's not just ear candy. There is something a little deeper going on there... something to be pondered and interpreted.

Its about when her garage lit on fire and she had to choose things to run out with. I don't think theres much else behind it, btu i could be wrong. Love it tho 5/5!

[amber]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its about when her garage lit on fire and she had to choose things to run out with. I don't think theres much else behind it, btu i could be wrong. Love it tho 5/5!

How does everyone know that? I've never heard that. Is it really? I mean, I don't think it's really about that, rather the incident seems to have provided the words which actually have deeper meaning.
But anyway, when did Stevie say that?

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its about when her garage lit on fire and she had to choose things to run out with. I don't think theres much else behind it, btu i could be wrong.

That was the initial inspiration for it, yes... but as with pretty much every other Stevie Nicks song in existence, I doubt that's really all it's about.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by amber

How does everyone know that? I've never heard that. Is it really? I mean, I don't think it's really about that, rather the incident seems to have provided the words which actually have deeper meaning.
But anyway, when did Stevie say that?

One of the OSOTM interviews she did. She explains the meanings behind all the songs basically. She says Alice is her favorite....yeah stevie never saw that again!

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

That was the initial inspiration for it, yes... but as with pretty much every other Stevie Nicks song in existence, I doubt that's really all it's about.

True true!

[amber]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

One of the OSOTM interviews she did. She explains the meanings behind all the songs basically. She says Alice is her favorite....yeah stevie never saw that again!

I guess I haven't seen that interview. Thanks Jimmy!

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by amber

I guess I haven't seen that interview. Thanks Jimmy!

All of it used to be on SaraRhiannon.com before it dissappeared. It explained every song from the album. I wish I still had it I forget what some are about.

BTW Our Birthday is coming up!!!!!!!!! June 30th wooooooooo!

[SpyNote]

FB is one of the stronger tracks on the Mirror album. Not so in favor of the keyboard-drenched arrangement, but the lyrics are good and tight, and there's a nice bridge.

Favorite line: "So still, there is a fire that no one sees/She doesn't even see it either or so everyone thinks."

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

I do not like this song and I still scratch my head wondering how songs like this made it on an album. That's just me.

I do like these two lines, though. Not the lyrics, but how they sound.

So cry for me take a little time and then stop
It's just something that you cannot see so stop

Do not like anything about this song.
The first time I heard her sing "BUuurrrnnniiiinnngg"..(if you can call it singing)
I think I through the Album across the room..that vocal change pushed me over the edge!

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

All of it used to be on SaraRhiannon.com before it dissappeared. It explained every song from the album. I wish I still had it I forget what some are about.

BTW Our Birthday is coming up!!!!!!!!! June 30th wooooooooo!

You can still see the SNU Google cache, sometimes:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&cd=13

Here's what it says in case you can't get it to come up:

FIRE BURNING
"The original inspiration for this was when I lived in a house on Doheny and my garage caught fire because somebody else's house caught fire down the street and a cinder hit my garage. And I woke up because I heard all this noise, and I looked out my front window and there's like, fifty firemen running up my driveway and I thought, well, 'what is this for?' And I ran around to all the windows and finally I got to the back of the house, and I looked out, and the entire garage was like, fifty feet of burning flames. And I ran around to the bathroom about fifteen different times, saying 'what can I take? What should I take?' So what I took was the dog, the blanket, all my writings and tapes, my jewelry... and I thought, you know, the stairs may be on fire. But she'll get down, she said. I'll get out, I'm not burning up in this house. So that's where the whole beginning and idea of this song came from, was 'what can I take and still survive the fire' or how much time can I spend to decide and not be burned up on the second story?
It's frightening, to see flames that high and know that at any point those flames could hit your house and I didn't know whether the bottom story was on fire already or not. But it was very hard for me because I thought, 'what do I take out of this room? I did, I ran around in circles three times, four times, five times, and I said, 'I'll take the dog, cashmere blanket, all my tapes, and my writing.' Everything else can be... doesn't matter, material things, at this point, don't matter."
~Stevie Nicks, The Other Side of the Mirror Listening Party, Westwood One, 1989

"I don't like fire in the real dictionary reading of the meaning of the word fire. I'm afraid to death of fire, I will never die by fire. I've only been in one fire and I was only about six and I will never forget it-- that's not true, I've been in two. My garage burned and and it was a massive fire and I was not 2 or 4, I was 28 or 30, actually. In Fire Burning, that's what the song is about. It's about when I say 'she turns around on the second story, I'll get down, what can I take and still survive the fire.' What that meant was I didn't know what to take, I was running around the room going 'well, let's see, the house is burning, it must be because the back yard is completley on fire, so the house must be burning too, so what do I do? What in these arms can I carry? What if the stairs are on fire?' I didn't know because I was only in my bedroom, so what I did was I grabbed my dog, my cashmere blanket, my writing, my tapes, my semi-absolute precious jewelry which all fit in a tiny little thing. And I just said goodbye, I've loved you all and everything that is left here, I'm sorry, I can't carry you down, but I can't, but I'll get down, I'll get out if I have to scale this side of this wall. I'll get out, I will not die in this fire. So that's kind of where that song came from."
~Stevie Nicks, 1989