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Finch - What It Is To Burn

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ArtistFinch
SongWhat It Is To Burn

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Synopsis

Finch perform the title track in shadowy, tightly framed rooms while a woman appears alone, troubled and lost in thought. The video moves between the band's forceful performance and impressionistic close-ups of her emotional state, giving the song's themes of pain, separation, and longing a stark visual counterpart. Its dark lighting and stripped-down presentation favor atmosphere over a literal storyline, capturing the intense, claustrophobic mood that helped define Finch's early-2000s post-hardcore sound.

Factoids & Trivia

  • Nate Barcalow said the song was written from the perspective of a man in hell sending a letter to someone he loved.
  • The original demo appeared on Drive-Thru Records' 2001 compilation *Welcome to the Family* before the song was re-recorded for Finch's debut album.
  • The version used for the single is shorter than the earlier demo, which has remained especially popular among longtime Finch fans.
  • Released as a single in January 2003, the song reached No. 15 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming Finch's only U.S. charting song.
  • The track was featured in the pilot episode of *One Tree Hill*, helping expose Finch to a wider television audience.
  • The song's combination of melodic singing and screamed vocals was later cited as an influence by Sleeping with Sirens vocalist Kellin Quinn.

Lyrics

She burns

Today's on fire
The sky is bleeding above me, and I am blistered
I walk these lines of blasphemy, every day
And still:

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

I feel diseased
Is there no sympathy from the sun?
The sky's still fire
...
© Finch - What It Is To Burn. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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