Burn Alive (song)

Burn Alive

Song
by The Last Dinner Party

Writer(s)

Abigail Morris
Georgia Davies
Emily Roberts
Aurora Nishevci
Lizzie Mayland
Rhys Downing

Producer(s)

James Ford

Length

3:21

Album

Prelude to Ecstasy

Label

Island Records

*Prelude to Ecstasy* chronology
"Prelude to Ecstasy"	"Burn Alive"	"Caesar on a TV Screen"

Audio

"Burn Alive" is the second track of The Last Dinner Party's debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy.

Background[]

Burn Alive was the very first track created by the band and they’ve been opening their sets with it since their first performance. The song was written by Abigail Morris after her father passed away: ^[1]

“it was the idea of, ‘Let me make my grief a commodity’—this kind of slightly sarcastic ‘I’m going to put my heart on the line and all my pain and everything for a buck.’ The idea of being ecstatic by being burned alive—by your pain and by your art and by your inspiration—in a kind of holy-fire way. What we’re here to do is be fully alive and committed to exorcising any demons, pain or joy.”

―Abigail Morris for Apple Music

Lyrics[]

Wine is on your blouse
You think it’s so romantic
But in reality
We’re both just addicts

I am not the girl I set out to be
Let me make my grief a commodity
Do what I can to survive
There is candle wax melting in my veins
So I keep myself standing in your flames
Burn, burn me alive

I am at the stake
Petrol my perfume
Bite marks on my back
I never could say no

You don’t wanna hurt me
But I want you to
I’d break off my rib
To make another you

You made me bite my tongue
And now there’s blood in my glass
Will you buy me a new one?
This is too good to last

I am not the girl I set out to be
Let me makе my grief a commodity
Do what I can to survive
There is candlе wax melting in my veins
So I keep myself standing in your flames
Burn, burn me alive

Burn, burn me alive
Burn me
Burn me
Burn me
Burn
Burn me alive