October music: I Will Burn for This by Reigns

Again, from the Reigns album The Widow Blades. First, the liner notes:

On the Tuesday morning following the disappearance, Tommy Spokes, a vagrant that lived in the old Anderson shelter behind the allotments, handed himself in to the local constabulary. He had just come off a mammoth drinking jag and was in a state of high distress, both physical and mental, and believed that he had committed an atrocity he could not recall. His wounds indisputably corroborated that he had been involved in some act of violence but with no reports, witnesses or victims the police were faced with the first of many investigative cul-de-sacs.

The song:



And the lyrics:

That Sunday
I drank all day
With some men
I’d met on the quay.

Woke up Tuesday
One eye was swollen shut
And every bone was broken
In my right hand.

And all the buttons were gone
From the front of my shirt
And from my hairline
To my throat
Four scratches ran red raw.

I’ve got a feeling
Such a terrible feeling
That something went wrong.

What have I done?
And where have I been?
I think that when I blacked out
That maybe I hurt someone
This time I will burn
I will burn for this.

I remember a precinct
And some flashing lights
I think that I hid in a doorway
And I was shaking all over
Why was I shaking all over?

What have I done?
And, oh God, where have I been?
I think that when I blacked out
That maybe I killed someone
This time I will burn
I will burn for this.

I will burn for this
(You will burn for this).