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The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Burning" by the artist "Wild Beasts"

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The lyrics of the song "Burning" by Wild Beasts are full of vivid imagery, conveying complex feelings of liberation, pain, and transformation. The lyrical hero experiences a kind of purification, perhaps from past mistakes, addictions, or relationships.

"Saved" – the repeating refrain, sounds ambiguous. On the one hand, there is a sense of relief from deliverance, on the other – fear of the unknown. "You" in the song is a certain force that guides the hero through this painful process. It can be either another person or an internal struggle.

The images of "you wash the dirt off me", "rinse me in the wind", "peel off the skin" – all speak of a painful but necessary cleansing. The fire that appears in the third verse symbolizes the destruction of the old to make way for the new. "You drag me through the coals" – this is the path to rebirth through suffering.

The feeling of shame described in the fourth verse suggests that the hero has to face his demons. He "grasps at emptiness", trying to hold on to the past, but all in vain.

The arrival of "you" in the fifth verse instills fear, because the hero understands that he has to go through something "beyond his strength." The burning of the "trace" in the fire is a final farewell to the past, a rejection of everything unnecessary.

The repeating "I will wait" at the end is both resignation to the inevitable and hope that renewal will come after the fire.

I'm saved

You pull my fingers out the dirt

You pluck me wriggling from the world

I'm saved

You cast me up into the wind

You shuck my body from its skin

I'm saved

The fire licking at the walls

You drag me burning 'cross the coals

I'm ashamed

Lying fallen on some stair

Clutching at the empty air

I'm awake

I see you walk into the room

Do the thing I couldn't do

I'm afraid

My burning footprints on the floor

The things I don't need anymore

I'll wait [x4]

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