Something's Burning, Baby

The words

A lover senses that something has gone badly wrong between them and pleads for honesty before it is too late.

The singer speaks to a woman he can feel slipping away, convinced that a crisis is coming even though neither of them will name it. He presses her with questions, by turns suspicious and pleading, while the danger stays vague and smouldering. The mood is tense and foreboding, like a scene from a thriller. The music moves at a heavy, steady march, with a martial drum pattern and backing voices deepening the sense of threat.