Lyrics for Burn The Witch as interpreted by bugmenot

Burn The Witch Lyrics
Holding hands
Skipping like a stone
On our way
To see what we have done
The first to speak
Is the first to lie
The children cross
Their hearts and hope to die

Bite your tongue
Swear to keep your mouth shut

Ask yourself
Will I burn in Hell?
Then write it down
And cast it in the well
There they are
The mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale
Into firewood
Fan the flames
With a little lie
Then turn your cheek
Until the fire dies
The skin it peels
Like the truth, away
What it was
I will never say...

Bite your tongue
Swear to keep
Keep your mouth shut
Make up something
Make up something good

Holding hands
Skipping like a stone
Burn the witch
Burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch
Burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch
Burn to ash and bone

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Thunderbolt
03-22-2005

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Good song, and I'm sure there's some underlying metaphorical meaning, but I haven't figured it out yet. Any ideas?

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Eskimo_8
03-25-2005

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I think it's along the same lines as "The Lost Art...". I can't really elaborate but think of it on those lines and analyze it for yourself.

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Robc16
03-27-2005

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This song is just another piece in QOTSA's semi - concept album. The entire album is set in a wood. This song does exactly what it says on the tin, its about the salem witch trials.

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insane metal fan
03-31-2005

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the phrase burn the witch seems to me to refere to people picking on those different from themselves, or it could be a referance to the salem witch trials like robc16 said

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Audium
04-11-2005

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Woow what an enthralling Song! The perfect Headbanger! I love the guitarrs, the stomping drums at the beginning and the suffering lyrics!
I think itīs about people or ethnic groups who are living in majorities and steadily pick on the minorities, trying to harm them just because they are somehow scared. Just like it happened to the "whiches" in the Middle Ages. Maybe Iīm overrating the songs intention but the lyrics are fun to listen to anyway! Keep on RockinīJosh!
This song is not prog!

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littlersister
04-12-2005

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I think the song is about the way people treated Josh Homme when he first got together with Brody Dalle. Everyone accused him of stealing her from Tim Armstrong and spread loads of shit about him. He's the witch and Armstrong's fans, friends and the media are the ones burning him.

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Eskimo_8
04-28-2005

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Ok, I just had a new thought. It's a political song. It could be the lies of the politicians in America to do with the war. The "mob" is the patriotic American public and the "firewood" is the enemy the government created out of the middle eastern countries like Iraq and Afganistan. I'm not sure if Josh Homme is political though, so someone critisize me if you think I'm wrong.

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OpiumForThePeople
06-01-2005

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I agree with Robc16. I think theres no hidden meaning or anything behind it. And LtP is truly a semi concept album. Theres songs that fit the "forest" concept like "This Lullaby", "Burn The Witch", "Someone's in the Wolf" and "The Blood Is Love" but also songs that have nothing to do with it.

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cabhan
06-16-2005

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thought that it was about watching what you say...observing the world we live in the society we walk amongst instead of shutting ourselves of...we become more palpable....like gummi eraser..

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silver_headed_monk
06-22-2005

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the more i listen to this song the more it sounds liek its about the media. i think it is saying how to sell paers or magazines etc. they just make up shit and lie. "To twist the tale Into firewood Fan the flames
With a little lie"

but the celebrity cant respond cos it just make it worse so they have to Then "turn your cheek Until the fire dies"
the truth will proably never be known.

the "What it was I will never say..." bit makes it sound personal. so maybe that brody dalle thing or perhaps something to do with nick??

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Narco_Darko
06-25-2005

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I'm pretty sure it's just about tabloids and gossip in general. It's a witch hunt against you when you're a celebrity, with everyone trying to get dirt on you and point fingers.

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vegatron4000
07-02-2005

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I agree with Eskimo 8, but thats just the way I think. My fav song on the album.

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bugmenot
07-04-2005

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It's about witch burnings (not just Salem, they were in Europe too), the darker side of human nature, mobs, and all that. It needs no hidden meaning and I don't think it has one. Read the lyrics and they speak for themselves. over and out

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combusticator
07-19-2005

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Just as history repeats itself, I think this song IS obviously about the salem witch story itself, because of how directly the 1st verse applies to the story of the girls that started the whole rumours.

However, this whole tale can be applied to just about anything everybody is talking about here. The song itself I don't think narrows anyone out specifically, it's more like a retelling of the witch story in order to--just like any fable would--teach a lesson and bring out symbolism to anyone that can see it today in news or other history(1950's communist witch hunts) or in our personal lives

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CedarSeed
07-20-2005

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...This is just my own opinion, but, doesn't it seem like the song's -just- about keeping a secret between two people, and the literal 'witch-hunt' that occurs in society when a secret's existence is found, but not it's content?

Basically, keeping a secret...just that, a secret?

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Gboeringa
11-07-2005

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this whole cd is loosely based on the brothers grim stories
thats what i think it is about

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Gboeringa
11-07-2005

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this whole cd is loosely based on the brothers grim stories
thats what i think it is about

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DZestmen
12-04-2005

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I saw them perform this song on Jay Leno with Billy F. Gibbons and it was just awesome.

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lukefun
12-12-2005

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It's seemingly about a guy who has rumours made up about him, and he won't stop until he finds out who started it.

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TimeBandit
01-12-2006

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Did you see the video? I think it reveals all story:
The kids are doing some wicked magic (i think they are calling satan out of hell or smtg)
That woman sees it and preach kids not to do so.
Children are affraid she will tell to the adults, so they launch preventive attack: they accuse her that she called satan out for she is the witch.
The adults gone hysterical and chase that poor woman to burn her.
Unfortunately she reveals herself to be the REAL WITCH, though she didn't called out satan.
Defending herself the witch kills them all with use of satanic power.
Nice explanation, huh?

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aenigma
01-15-2006

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The video to this song is amazing! And it does depict scenes from the time of the salem witch trials...but with a twist. The woman they accuse of being a witch, is in actual fact a witch who raises skeletons from the dead and runs amok, seeking revenge ON all those who wanted to burn her. Brilliant!

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Spoon333
02-20-2006

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The video is so strange...

the witch is all dancin around with the skeletons and stuff...

totally blew my mind..

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friendly_milk_lady
04-05-2006

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Well personally i see it as someone doing an ugly girl up the arse. I dunno where all this stuff about killing witches has come from...

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matt_boner_boy
04-05-2006

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oh dear luv, is your eyesight a bit poor, it's not bum the witch it's BURN the witch!

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friendly_milk_lady
04-05-2006

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Dont 'luv' me! Bloody hell, where are you from? Flipping Coronation Street?! And Im pretty damn sure its bum the witch. Im not a total spaz.

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