THE BURNT PINES

the burnt pines

Boston, MA, USA and Lisbon, Portugal.

Please enjoy our second album “Don’t Look Down”, Available on all the digital streaming platforms, at this link:

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The physical CD or HD digital download of the album can also be purchased at Bandcamp, at this link:

"Don't Look Down" by THE BURNT PINES (on Bandcamp)

"Don't Look Down" by THE BURNT PINES - Our second album (Click here)

"THE BURNT PINES" by The Burnt Pines - Our debut album (Click here)

Complete lyrics from our second album, “Don’t Look Down”:

Bring Out Your Book

To the bar at midnight,

Susan’s my right hand.

I’m all the water in Mexico,

And she is the sand.

And I didn’t mean to hurt you,

But I gotta be what I am,

The truth is there’s just not enough time,

In the history of man.

So bring out your priest,

Bring out your book,

Put me down on my knees.

Take me down to the river,

And dunk me in the water

If you think it might help me please.

But there’s no way that God can save me now,

There’s nothing that God will do.

There’s no way that God will save me now,

There’s nothing that God will do for me now.

The first one comes out hungry,

The second one meets the day,

The third one feels that nobody loves him,

And the fourth one finds a way.

And to my sons I’m sorry,

Come see me when you’re grown.

Pull on my beard, and punch me in the belly,

And tell me how much you own.

And bring out your priest,

Bring out your book,

Put me down on my knees.

Take me down to the river

And drown me in the water

If you think you might find some peace.

But there’s no way that God will save you now,

There’s nothing that God will do.

There’s no way that God will save you now,

There’s nothing that God will do for you now.

I was once 9 years old,

I was once 13.

I was once 21,

And once I had a dream.

All the people that I know,

Look like animals to me.

Some are sheep, and some are wolves,

And some are hardly free.

So bring out your priest,

Bring out your book,

Put me up on your knee.

Down to the river,

Float me in the water,

If you think it might help me see.

But there’s no way that God will save us now,

There’s nothing that God will do.

There’s no way that God will save us now,

There’s nothing that God will do for us now.

Don’t Look Down

Annanaia I hate you,

And how you dance with the living.

It’s a murder-mystery to me,

That won’t stop giving.

Old bones and symbols thrown,

In a language I’ve been missing.

I just get too excited,

I’ve forgotten the game.

Guess I was invited to play.

Unfold on a comic hero

Chasing her to dinner.

All black holes and eyes unknown,

And the darkness is the winner.

I was up on a mountain,

And she was down in the streets,

Drinking wine and counting her dreams.

There must be some way out of here, uh huh.

Map for the blind.

Sounds simple, it’s sorcery, uh huh,

Whatever you do,

Don’t look down.

Annanaia I love how you,

Dance with the dead.

My soul’s a-waving flags with

Hearts painted red.

I keep trying to fight it,

But it’s bigger than me.

One man trying to drink the sea.

Pushing On

Everybody has some times when the world stops giving.

And sometimes your dreams might not come true, for a while.

But don’t stop now

Even though I know it hurts

Please forge ahead

Your whole life’s in front of you.

Take a look at where you’ve already traveled.

And please don’t forget you’ve come so far.

Hold onto your dreams, cause you never know.

They just might still come true, if you believe.

But don’t stop now

Even though I know it hurts.

Just forge ahead

Your whole life’s in front of you.

Just pick up the pieces

And keep moving ahead.

Don’t ever stop believing

And just try to keep

Pushing on, on, on

Pushing on, on, on

Pushing on, on, on

Pushing on, on, on

Now everybody has some pain that just never gets better.

And everybody carries that pain around, in their heart, for a while.

So don’t stop now

Even though I know it hurts.

Just forge ahead

Your whole life’s in front of you.

Just pick up the pieces

And keep moving ahead.

Don’t ever stop believing

And just try to keep

Pushing on, on, on . . .

What Did You Come Back For?

Garden witch,

My color for you is blue.

I’ll give anything for the muse.

It’s a shady quality

That keeps me hungry for

Everything that I could lose.

Your apple’s on the table

Can you tell me what’s in store?

Draw a card, read my palm, spin the bottle put lightning in a jar

What did you come back for?

You know

There’s fate in innocence.

I trust nobody but my nose,

To tell me what I’m not supposed to.

I don’t even go out no more.

Every time I do it’s just a storm.

How come every part of me is still unwritten and torn?

And tell me now what did you come back for?

They all have purple hearts,

And dry white hands.

I forget the feeling of fire in the sand.

Do not call because I won’t pick up the phone.

I’m in a conversation on my own.

You know I’ve been through decadence.

I trust nobody but my song,

To tell me what is right or wrong.

Angels and Violence

I know

It’s bold

Sex and lies make it snow

a burning house behind us.

I pray too slow

Where did all the old gods go?

Heartbreaking angels and violence.

And I finally know,

I can’t forget about you

without losing my mind.

I couldn’t make a stand

I couldn’t walk away

I couldn’t fight the beast

I could never, I could never stay

couldn’t kill or die

I couldn’t if I wanted to.

Too much

isn’t it?

Too much trouble in it

Too much trouble to dance with you.

We’re so unknown

Crying out in the fall of Rome.

You take my heart with you.

And I finally know,

I can’t dream about you

without losing my mind.

Don’t feel bad when the well runs dry.

Don’t feel sad because you tried.

I can tell that we will find,

another golden heart.

In From the Outside

I guess the time has come

Looking in, in from the outside.

You can say what you want,

Time will tell if you are right.

I won’t settle for you

I won’t bend, and I won’t break.

Just because I’m wrong

Doesn’t mean that you are right.

We won’t mourn, and we won’t beg,

Hold to our truths and fight instead.

Hold on, hold on to your core

To the ones you love

Then love some more.

Fight on, fight for what you know

Fight for the children

Don’t let that go.

Don’t stop, let them hear you

Sing your voice so loud and true.

You say you don’t mean it all

But you say that you can live with it.

What does that say to me?

That you don’t, don’t see the crazy in it?

Yet you still know it’s true

You can’t pretend that you don’t see the hate.

I don’t care what you say

I only care what you do.

We won’t mourn, and we won’t beg,

Hold to our truths and fight instead.

Hold on, hold on to our core

To the ones we love

Then love some more.

Fight on, fight for what we know

Fight for the children, don’t let that go.

Don’t stop, let them hear us

Sing our voice so loud and true.

But it’s a scary new world

And a lonely new night.

And I can barely breathe

So bewildered by you.

Tell me what you see.

Tell me what you feel.

I still don’t understand

Oh It just doesn’t seem real.

Don’t stop, let them hear you

Sing your voice so loud and true.

Your Magic Is to Blame

I'm tired of gold dust,

I'm looking for something more.

A meaning in the eye or a certain sign,

held up in the palm of a little rhyme.

I might feel worthless days but days like feelings come and go

all I know

is that I'm tired of gold dust.

All the famous words

and bright bold lines

held up like temples.

You held my mind,

let go,

and try to find an answer to what nobody knows.

You got me high and strange

and your magic is to blame.

I'm feeling like an old man

though I can leap on to any of your ideas.

I'm singing the back up chorus,

It's like I haven't felt this way for years.

I want to make my heart like it was

open to fear and open to love.

Living in gold dust,

living in lights,

everyone knows that the tragedy lies in between.

You got me high and strange, 

and your magic is to blame.

My body is broken my heart is all in 

giving up easy is just like a win,

if winning means,

let go of your consciousness

let go of what really is us.

I am tired of gold dust

tired of gold dust.

You're sitting like an angel

twisted beautiful and strange,

but I can't live like this anymore,

and your magic is to blame.

The Ghost Living In My Beer

The city is so solemn after midnight.

On a day so lost in autumn it's unknown.

A silhouette is dancing in the streetlight.

The city's soul has flown out with the storm.

And you may ask me with a sympathetic voice,

How is it I came to here?

I'd tell you but I cannot hear you from the noise,

of the ghost living in my beer.

I had too many choices that I never chose.

I wanted only freedom, only truth.

I found myself so free,

but truth is full of complications.

So I left it lying back there in my youth.

And you may tell me like a vision from the past,

That the world is bright and clear.

And I should answer but I only hear the laugh,

of the ghost living in my beer.

And you can tell me you are right and I am wrong,

but I have nothing left to fear.

‘cause I am happy with myself and with my song,

and the ghost living my beer.

There's a ghost living in my beer. 

Welcome Home!

I’ve got tea for two

In my UFO

And I come in peace

Please take me to your leader.

I am not a fool

But I feel so new

Discovering you

Discovering you.

I tried apple pie

For the very first time

And I kissed a girl

A love so out of this world.

I am not a fool

But I feel so new

Discovering you

Discovering you.

You’re the only one on planet earth (6X)

Big and blue.

I am not a fool

But I feel so new

Discovering you

Discovering you.

I am petrified

I must stay by your side

My lungs can’t breathe the air

My heart doesn’t care.

I am not a fool

But I feel so new

Discovering you

Discovering you.

Daytime TV

Getting lost in daytime TV

Songs from the second floor

Whispering through the screen.

The gameshow host is selling me a dream

I hear the wild youth

Dancing in the streets.

I stood there as a clown

On the day my business burned down

Tell me now love, who’s praying for me?

We’re at war with the next apartment block

Now that the editors

Have failed to reach their flock.

A flag is raised like a vicious howling tooth

We’re writing poetry

Up there on the roof.

I stood as a used-up slave

On the day she went away

Tell me now love, who’s praying for us?

I fought for the empire’s ways

Now I'm old and tired and I've got no one to pick me up

Wherever you are I hope that you’ve stopped

Watching daytime TV.

Bad Love

We are young with impossible dreams,

we're married to midnight.

We sail our souls through a drunken stream,

get buried in bright lights.

I want a reaction from you

You think I'm ugly,

I think you're plain,

we push and shove.

Just two lost souls 

with boiled up brains,

in the age of bad love.

Talk to me

even if I don't know

what to say,

even if I don't know what I'm doing.

Open up those pearly gates

let the light shine in.

You tear my heart out,

save the day,

and we'll just be friends.

We got too much world

and nothing to say,

we are vicious passion.

We tell each other it's okay

‘cause bad love's in fashion.

Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)

Written by Ian Scott Anderson (Copyright BMG Monarch)

Meanwhile back in the year one
When you belonged to no one
You didn't stand a chance, son
If your pants were undone.

'Cause you were bred, for humanity
And sold to society.
One day you'll wake up, in the present day
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be.

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day.

So as you push off from the shore
Won't you turn your head once more
And make your peace with everyone.

For those who choose to stay
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should've done.

And as you cross the wilderness
Spinning in your emptiness
If you have to, pray.

Looking for a sign, that the universal minds
Has written you into the passion play.

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day.

And as you cross the circle line
Well, the ice wall creaks behind
You're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly
In the corner of your eye
Shining in the setting sun.

Well, do you ever get the feeling
That the story's too damn real
And in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage
And it seems like you're the only
Person sitting in the audience?

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day.

Skating away, skating away, skating away.

Complete lyrics from our self-titled debut album, “THE BURNT PINES”:

Diamonds

I’m a dog, I’m a dog.

black and white and bones,

I wait, inside our home.

I’m in love, I’m in love

with a statue down in Rome,

and my kaleidoscope.

I bleed apart.

Torment in the colorful rain.

Diamonds, oh diamonds,

I don’t mind getting old for you, babe.

Ring the bell, who can tell?

The pigeons on the church, they know

how much it hurts

to see Madonna walk away,

silk dress to the wind,

sail off to Bethlehem.

She had a certain way,

smoking on her pipe,

shooting arrows through the gamblers at play.

She bought me out,

She won the game,

Old dog swimming in champagne.

Take me out after dark,

so the strays out on the street

can watch the princess eat.

And when she’s satisfied I know

My fur is gold,

And I’m ascending heaven.

Heavy and Young

Old and weightless

is what you called me for my drifting mind.

Halfway to the moon, and I turned back

because the sun was in my eyes.

If we could talk, then maybe

I'd tell you how I really feel this time.

Old and weightless

is what I'm trying to kill since you've been gone.

I cast spells and talk to ghosts,

sit around and sing them all our songs.

If I could see you maybe

you could show me how it all went wrong.

I was never much for thinking

I could never get it done

I don't know how I am feeling,

heavy and young.

Old and weightless is all i ever want to be for myself.

From now on I'm sunny as hell

forgetting about the fools who can't tell.

Have a heart, then maybe

I would be an easier sell.

I was never much for thinking

I could never get it done.

I don't know how I am feeling

heavy and young.

I was never much for changing

but the world has made me dumb.

I was never much for thinking

heavy and young.

Heavy-weightless,

old and young,

I don't care what I become.

Song for Rose                                                             

You’re so fresh

I don’t believe everything in my soul

But I know if it ever is time to go

I will do it with a gleam in my eye.

I confess

I haven’t always been good to our love

I get crazy when I drink too much alcohol

I got dark thoughts down in my mind.

But I wrote you a song

Not for anyone else

‘cause you’re my rose.

It’s alright

There’s no warning for a young boy in love

You got pregnant early in the morning

In the bed we were talking about God.

Only one life

And all the time that I give you is gold

When the baby forgets how we really were

We’ll whisper about it when the baby is old.

But I wrote you a song

Not for anyone else

‘cause you’re my rose.

On the Burning Bridge

Hey, let us stand face-to-face.

I couldn’t hold what I hate.

Bouncing over the memories,

but I don’t ever want to forget.

Read into the moment.

Oh my days, oh my broken love,

I don’t want to say goodbye.

But there’s nothing I haven’t tried,

but death.

I don’t know exactly how I feel,

but I can’t chase you through this.

Tell me of a future I can love,

or let’s fall apart on the burning bridge.

I need to talk while we can.

I have become the invisible man.

I wish I was a stranger,

so we could start all over again.

Read into the moment.

Oh my days, oh my burning love,

I don’t want to say goodbye.

But there’s nothing I haven’t tried,

but death.

I don’t know exactly how I feel,

but I can’t chase you through this.

Tell me of a future I can love,

or let’s fall apart on the burning bridge.

I’ve woken in the night,

I don’t want to be so lost.

You used to be my light,

But now it’s at what cost?

Only In the Soul

I’m following you

Down a forest path

Raven on my back

I’m talking blue           

Let the wild beasts whisper.

North Western skies

Speak easy, I’m right here with you

By your side

Drop your feathers and your dreams into great wide space.

Let’s dance on the electric lake.

What spirit are you?

What’s the shape you take?

Can you give me a clue?

I’m hollering wolf

When the moon is full.

Our second sight

Comes from burning the candles at both ends

It makes a beautiful light

And real magic might kill you in the great wide space.

Only in the soul you see. 

Mother On the Mountain

Let the cars run wild

on the roads under neon lights.

I stand on the side

Mother on the mountain.

When they shout and fight

I would rather write

Only for her eyes

Mother on the mountain

I am I am nothing but my name

Let the ballroom world around me rise and fall

I am I have always been the same

Through tidal waves of tears

And 3 billion years of love.

Don’t break me for sour bread

Don’t work me until I’m dead

Just bury me instead

With the mother on the mountain.

She’s got a burning smile

I would gladly die,

For a kiss goodbye

Mother on the mountain.

Oh Me, Oh My

My dreams are full of thoughts like pearls

round the beautiful neck of a darling.

I built these wings and flew the world

right into this champagne glass of mine.

And in this blitz I felt alive

my sword cut deep in the devil

but when I open up my eyes

I am a servant wide awake.

Oh me, oh my

well I find myself drowning,

in dreams of paradise again

I am a master of illusion.

I ate my plate of hard advice,

I have fought so long with no hope.

Maybe years will be my prize

lost forever to my soul.

Perhaps one day I will rise

to meet my glorious fate,

but when I open up my eyes

I'm but a slave to this place.

Oh me, oh my

well I find myself drowning,

in dreams of paradise again

I am a master of illusion.

Dead dreamer

I live long winters in my dreams

while the snow outside keeps me locked in.

Safe and warm, so it seems

my heart is cold and frozen.

I'll call for action, call for change

I'll call for bravery in disguise

but when I'm woken there's no change

and no more magic in my mind.

Oh me, oh my

well I find myself drowning,

in dreams of paradise again

I am a master of illusion.

From Seville to Manhattan

Nobody wants to let you drown

But I told you, Alabama, I can’t swim

You climbed up into those hills

Following him.

In the cold North Carolina

Left your summers in the pickup

Left your springtime up in Canada

Left your Autumn saying good luck.

You were married in a church under a waterfall

And I wonder, can you see in the Hollywood mist?

A million eyes were watching from the farms in Arkansas

To the suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge.

And your rings were made of China

And your vows were bound in lambskin

And your dress draped over Sodom

And Gomorrah made of porcelain.

From Sevilla to Manhattan

The good news comes running with the birds

As I set sail upon this great, wide ocean

I’m haunted by notorious words.

Is my vengeance real in Gotham?

Why’s the moonlight made of stone?

Will the years all be forgotten?

Is it too late to go home?

Follow me home.

With two eyes like searchlights

Follow me home.

And your rings were made of China

And your vows were bound in lambskin

And your dress draped over Sodom

And Gomorrah made of porcelain.

Is my vengeance real in Gotham?

Why’s the moonlight made of stone?

Will the years all be forgotten?

Is it too late to go home?

Outside Of Us

You flew in like Notre Dame

Changed into an honest name

I walked right in to your storm

They built a church for you

They built a mall

Ten thousand love-struck in a wall.

But I got my head

I got my hand

I got my heart on you

I got my heart on you.

This is one time

Where I am finally sure

I’m not riding on the world no more

This is one time

Where the master’s on the floor

And I’m not riding on the world no more

It’s outside of us.

She is all your greatest hits

Trying to fight is meaningless

She’s every atom in your form.

One day I’ll sing it to

Everyone and all

A stubborn love refused to fall.

One day we’ll sing it to

Everyone and all

We gave our faith and trust

‘cause it was outside of us.

I got my head

I got my hand

I got my heart on you

I got my heart on you.

This is one time

Where I am finally sure

I’m not riding on the world no more.

This is one time

Where the master’s on the floor

And I’m not riding on the world no more.

It’s outside of us

It’s outside of us

It’s outside of us.

Waiting For You

The past don't hold no place of refuge.

The future's out there on its own.

I am soft spoken in the deluge,

I voyage into the unknown.

Somewhere out there,

There's a meaningful mouthful 

waiting for you.

Unemployment holds no options,

and business don't have a sense of self.

All the rebels have been forgotten.

Everyone's worried about themselves.

Somewhere out there,

there's a meaningful mouthful

waiting for you.

No glory in pursuing despair,

Hell is a place you can find anywhere.

If you're starving and empty for something that's true,

let the music clear your mind.

Waiting for you. 

Make the Sign

We live in the backwoods chasing pure light.

We will never stop from moving.

The outside lines have blurred,

our minds

are up the coast and down in the suburbs.

And high is low and magic happens, 

on an empty street,

so silent you can hear you heart beat.

I've known you since you made the sign.

And I've been watching you,

no end to the evil summer,

everyone's eyes on the girl outnumbered.

Can't stop what you feel inside let sparks fly true.

All our secret behaviors,

hold on let the time make it alright.

I see you, I must do

what my heart tells me to.

Everyone's got skeletons in our lives.

Promise me you won't sleep through the future

this time.

Don't let your tears be the story you tell.

I believe in angels ringing broken bells.

I believe that you and I will find ourselves.

We will escape when you give me the sign.

And I've been watching you,

no end to the evil summer,

everyone's eyes on the girl outnumbered.

Can't stop what you feel inside let sparks fly true.

All our secret behaviors,

hold on let the time make it alright.

I see you, I must do

what my heart tells me to.

April Child

You’re the lucky one

We wrote it on your face

Tongues got loose when you turned around

And we all began using your name.

And on the day that you left town

They said the street light wasn’t the same

It went down.

You’re the lucky one

even though you’ve changed

everyone knows that a single smile

is the closest we can get to escape.

You’re the April child

You’re the sun in our eyes.

When the day is done

We’ll find another way

People will try to say their goodbyes

But it’s the darkest way to get through the day.

You’re the April child

You’re the sun in our eyes.

We’ve had bad days

Waiting for the rain

Mostly it’ll pass us by

And leave us just the same again.

Like all the blue words

Humming in the air

Finding that the one we want

Is buried in our simple minds.

You’re the April child

You’re the sun in our eyes.

You’re the April child

You’re the sun in our eyes.

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