There exists two songs which have a very interesting contrast, perhaps they agree more than I thought at first glance:
Inside the Fire by Disturbed, Album: Indestructible, Track 2, Reprise 2008 (part of Warner Music Group?)
Standing Outside The Fire by Garth Brioks, Album: In Pieces, Track 1, Liberty 1993
YES I ADMIT IT: I'M WEIRD ... I LISTEN TO ROCK, DANCE, TRANCE AND (gulp) COUNTRY MUSIC!!
I figured I just had to get that out of the way so the comment box doesn't get filled with such comments (it probably will anyway.)
The jist of the older song is pretty simple: Life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire
The newer song has a similar chorus: Release your life to begin another time ... take your place inside the fire with her
They come from remarkably different directions. Garth Brooks is talking about people who take big chances with life (the video features a person with a disability.) Mike Walgren (Disturbed vocalist) had a girlfriend who committed suicide (really, not just in the music video.)
Standing Outside The Fire is a challenge to those who don't leave their comfort zones: Go out and accomplish something.
Inside The Fire is written as a taunt by the devil, one which taunts Mike's character in the video to commit suicide in order to join his girlfriend in hell.
Where the two songs meet is in rehab centres, family shelters, and rape treatment centres, where you have people who are a mess and need love. There are also communities of addicts and other screwballs who can take you down with them. The Featherwing Brotherhood is a rather interesting organization with some characteristics of both ... a place where these two songs can meet and say almost exactly the same thing.
--------Standing Outside The Fire--------
We call them cool:
Those hearts who have no scars to show
The ones that never do let go
And risk the tables being turned
We call them fools:
Who have to dance within the flame
Who chance the sorrow and the shame
That always come with getting burned
But you got to be tough when consumed by desire
'cus it's not enough just to stand outside the fire
We call them strong:
Those who can face this world alone
Who seem to get by on their own
Those who will ever take the fall ['never'?]
We call them weak:
Who are unable to resist
The slightest chance love might exist
And for that, forsake it all
They're so hell-bent on giving
Walking a wire
Convinced it's not living
If you stand outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire
There's this love that is burning
Deep in my soul
Constantly yearning to get out of control
Wanting to fly, higher and higher
I can't abide standing outside
The fire
Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire
--------Inside the Fire-------- [Note: original girl's name is Devon; Haifun is the name of the Featherwing Love lady.]
(Laughs)
Oooooh, Haifun won't go to heaven
she's just another lost soul about to be mine again
Leave her, we will receive her
It is beyond your control, will you ever meet again?
Haifun, no longer living
Who had been rendered unwhole as a little child
She was taken, and then forsaken
You will remember it all, let it blow your mind again
Haifun lies beyond this portal
Take the word of one immortal
Give your soul to me for eternity
Release your life to begin another time with her
End your grief with me, there's another way
Release your life, take your place inside the fire with her
Sever, now and forever
You're just another lost soul about to be mine again
See her, you'll never free her
You must surrender it all if you'd like to meet again
Fire for your desire
As she begins to turn cold for the final time
You will shiver, till you deliver
You will remember it all, let it blow your mind again
Haifun lies beyond this portal
Take the word of one immortal
Give your soul to me for eternity
Release your life to begin another time with her
End your grief with me, there's another way
Release your life, take your place inside the fire with her
...
Take me away, yeah
...
Give your soul to me for eternity
Release your life to begin another time with her
End your grief with me, there's another way
Release your life, take your place inside the fire with her
Oooooh, Haifun, no longer living
Who had been rendered unwhole as a little child
She was taken, and then forsaken
You will remember it all, let it blow your mind again, man
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