Song title: Burning Out
Music by: Tero Aalto
Lyrics by: Tero Aalto
Artist: Snowclone
Snowclone is a Finnish duo that produces pop music with a strong Nordic flavor. The band was founded in 2007. It consists of Anna Sipilä, a vocalist with a unique voice that grants Snowclone its signature sound, and Tero Aalto, who takes care of all the rest.
Tero is a language technologist who has been writing songs for all his life, not only for Snowclone but also movies, theater etc. Tero’s first HCSC was back in 2002, and since 2011 he has participated every year.
Burning Out describes feelings everybody goes through at some point of their life: fatigue, disappointment, despair. How to cope with not being able to live up to your expectations? There are no answers here. Back in 2002, Tero’s first HCSC entry was “Waiting for Life” (later also recorded by Snowclone), and, fittingly, several other songs can be seen as continuation of the story that began there, alternate timelines, in a way. Among these, Burning Out presents perhaps the bleakest scenario.
Burning Out
Every day my world goes off in flames
Every night I drown in tears
Grandeur to decay
How I wound up this way
Burning out, caving in
Cracking up, breaking down
I was bound to rule this world
Greatness stood by my door
Affluence, no pretense
All my goals seemed to be within reach
I was trapped inside my mind
Doomed to chasing ubiquity
Shattered dreams cut skin like glass
Bleeding wounds on my feet
Never seem to heal
But I can conceal
Failures and anguished voices
Every day my world goes off in flames
Every night I drown in tears
Grandeur to decay
How I wound up this way
Burning out, caving in
Cracking up, breaking down
I have fallen on my face
Can’t revive sense of irony
Castles built on shifting sands
Fading vestige of hope
Nothing up my sleeve
Too much to achieve
It’s still too amusing, annoying
Astounding, appalling
To start accepting my fate
Every day my world goes off in flames
Every night I drown in tears
For this squandered brain
There’s a way down the drain
Barren thoughts congesting my mind
Every day my world goes off in flames
Every night I drown in tears
Grandeur to decay
How I wound up this way
Burning out, caving in
Cracking up, breaking down
For this squandered brain
There’s a way down the drain
Barren thoughts combusting me
Stifled cries breaking loose
Burning out