Hands Like Houses – Wildfire (Lyric Visualiser)

Wildfire is the last track of the Strato(sphere) volume.

Wildfire is a song about the dystopian future that lies ahead and the possibilities of how we continue to edge towards an Armageddon. It’s sung from the perspective of being the last person left alone in a world that is crumbling but being too late to save it. We always feel so blind to our own destruction and this song presents the possibilities if we constantly let the toxic pieces of history repeat themselves. It’s terrifying that our world ending in fire and brimstone feels so possible and how could you not? All we hear about is the end and not of how we could begin a new way of living. I always feel that heaviness and I wanted a song that represented those emotions in a visual way. -Josh

Written and performed by Hands Like Houses
Additional music and production by Callan Orr
Additional writing by Ben Woolner
Produced by Callan Orr
Vocal Engineered By Ben Woolner
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Callan Orr at Avalanche Studios

Lyrics:

This sea of silence, is getting way too loud
The cold inside my head, has all the voices washing out.
Feel something stranger, and all I taste is rust
There’s nothing left but light, it’s slowly fading out.

I close my eyes again,

Cause this feels like a burning, fallout
Walk in to a wildfire
Burning, blackout
Walk in to a wildfire

I’m fighting through it
These acid clouds of blue
My eyes are full of dust and bitterness

Why can’t we see it
We’re poison to ourselves
The rubble left behind, is that how we remember us?

As ashes fall around us
We bury what we once loved
We once loved