“Burning Bright (Field on Fire)” was released one week after NIN announced Not the Actual Events. It is a typically heavy, brooding track about destruction and struggle, fitting with Reznor’s statement about the EP:
It’s an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make.
In an inter...
[Verse 1]
I'm going back
Of course I am
As if I ever had a choice
Back to what I always knew I was
On the inside
Back to what I really am
Look at this pathetic place I made
With little bits of sticks and hair
And anything I found along the way
And tell yourself, you know?
You're not really what you know you are
You know?
Of course you do
I think I may have even listened to you
I think I may have even listened to you
At the height of my demise
[Pre-Chorus]
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
[Chorus]
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
[Verse 2]
And oh my god, I missed you, it's been so long
And I am stronger than I have ever been in my decline
I am stronger than I have ever been in my decline
For now I know, now I know, now I know for certain
Now I know for certain
Oh, burn motherfucker!
Carry the carcass and throw it on
Pull up a chair and watch
The flies come roaring out
And will surround the entire world
And blacken out the sky and every last one of you
Like a plague of locusts
Like an exit
Like an end
Like an end
Like an end
Like the end
[Pre-Chorus]
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
[Chorus]
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
I am forgiven
I am free
I am a field on fire
[Outro]
I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore
I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore
I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore
I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore
[Extra Lyrics]
It's getting hard to know which side is a dream
Burning Bright (Field on Fire) was written by Nine Inch Nails.
Burning Bright (Field on Fire) was produced by Nine Inch Nails.
Nine Inch Nails released Burning Bright (Field on Fire) on Fri Dec 23 2016.