Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: hard-rock
Song Meaning of “Burnin’ For You – Live at Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA – July 1983” by Blue Öyster Cult
Burnin’ For You paints a vivid picture of a passionate love affair gone wrong. The narrator is desperate to get the one he once loved back in his arms again, and he is using every ounce of energy to get her attention. He is on fire, but his passionate desire to have her back in his life isn’t reciprocated. He yearns to win her back, but it seems like there’s no chance of it – it’s a situation that he can’t escape from as the miles and distance between them seem to be too deep to bridge. Meanwhile, his heart is burning for her like a flame, while his wounds remain unhealed and his dreams of her remain broken. Although there is still hope that he can find solace in someone else in time, the narrator can’t help but feel the torment and pain of a love he can’t let go of. All he can do is carry on, carrying the weight of his lost love and continuing to hope for a better outcome.