Burning Alive Burning Alive Tobie DePauw Lifestyles Editor Fire is a truly incredible element. For all of time it has represented life and death, pain and pleasure.
Fire can burn away life or sustain it.
Fire is about cleansing, or renewal and change, as painful as it may be. In the simple, yet poetic lyrics of Matt Skiba and Dan Adriano, the flames represent everything that forces you to change and everything that holds you in place. It is the fire that burns within you to keep you going, but even more it is the fire that consumes you and burns away the pleasures and pains of life. Some people say they want to go out in a ball of flames, but Matt Skiba, Dan Adriano, and Glenn Porter seem like they are choosing to leave life in a slow burn, like a cigarette. Rarely does a band come along and make consistently good music that sounds different than past releases.