We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Demon of Fire Invades the Stricken City

from Turning Into Ash by The Brothers Burn

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 10 The Brothers Burn releases available on Bandcamp and save 75%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I Don't, Wild Man, Uniform, Summerfall, The Brothers Burn, Happy To Be Here, I Want What You Want, Fill in the Blanks, and 2 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $10.50 USD or more (75% OFF)

     

lyrics

The Demon of Fire Invades the Stricken City

The terrors of the earthquake are momentary. One fierce, levelling shock and usually all is over.

The torment within the earth has passed on and the awakened forces of the earth's crust sink into rest again, after having shaken the surface for many leagues. Rarely does the dread agent of ruin leave behind it such a terrible follower to complete its work as was the case in the doomed city of San Francisco.

The Demon of Fire Invades the Stricken City

The city resembled one vast blazing furnace.

The demon of fire followed close upon the heels of the unseen fiend of the earth's hidden caverns, and ran red-handed through the metropolis of the West, kindling a thousand unhurt buildings, while the horror-stricken people stood aghast in terror, as helpless to combat this new enemy as they were to check the ravages of the earthquake itself.

The situation of the people was a maddening one. They were forced helplessly and hopelessly to gaze upon the destruction of their all, and it is no marvel if many of them grew frantic and lost their reason at the sight.

Thousands gathered and looked on in blank and pitiful misery, their strong hands, their iron wills of no avail, while the red-lipped fire devoured the hopes of their lives.

The city resembled one vast blazing furnace.

In a dozen, a hundred, places the flames shot up redly. Huge, strong buildings which the earthquake had spared fell an unresisting prey to the flames.

All day Wednesday the fire spread unchecked, all efforts to stay its devouring fury proving futile.

In the business section of the city everything was in ruins. Not a business house was left standing. Theatres crumbled into smouldering heaps. Factories and commission houses sank to red ruin before the devouring flames. The scene was like that of ancient Babylon in its fall, or old Rome when set on fire by Nero's command, as tradition tells.

When night fell and the sun withdrew his beams the spectacle was one at once magnificent and awe-inspiring. The city resembled one vast blazing furnace.

The flames could be seen ascending skyward for miles upon miles, while in the midst of the red spirals of flame could be seen at intervals the black skeletons and falling towers of doomed buildings.

credits

from Turning Into Ash, released September 30, 2011

license

tags

about

The Brothers Burn Austin

The Brothers Burn is Austin-based pop-punk-electro-rock-funk producer Scott Osborn, channeling David Byrne, The B-52's, and Frank Zappa with as much zeal as he and his gear and failing voice can muster.

contact / help

Contact The Brothers Burn

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

The Brothers Burn recommends:

If you like The Brothers Burn, you may also like: