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Plague: "WoodBurnsFire (HEAT)" (including memoirs)

1/30/2014

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Artist(s):  Jeremiah Dirt 
Song: WoodBurnsFire (H.E.A.T) 
Word Count: 400
Producer: Fingaz
Recorded: Abbot Sounds 
Album: Plague (Rescue rec. 1997) 
Dirts favorite Line(s):  ‘evil grasshoppers made a move on us’, ‘lets put a squeeze on them bugs like 2 hands and accordian’ ‘We took the Secret of the Gun and Buried it Deep within the Earth… So No Man Shall Find it” 

Lyrics & Memories: WoodBurnsFire (H.E.A.T.)

                      >>>SEE THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE<<<
 This song became the epitome of me writing something too deep for anyone to pick up on. There are a couple ideas so interwoven into this track that some did not pick up on them alltogether.

            The main one is that it’s a song about a gun. Which most peeps understood. I actually concepted this track after what happened from the ‘Operation E’ song (gunfire at a house party I was performing at). I was tired of bullets in our culture!

            My uncle Merle told me about a scene in a Ray Bradbury book called ‘Farenheit 45’. I still haven’t read it but its something about a guy who see’s these crazy visions of war but in reverse. So the bullets are actually flying out of people and back into the guns. I thought that was dope!

            If you pay attention to the second verse of this track I go through the story of a gun in the same way. Normally we dig the ores out of the ground, melt them down to metals, fashion the metal to guns and bullets, shoot them into people, and doctors have to pull them out. But I go in reverse:

-‘capsules of metal with evil intention/ were placed within my body with delayed explosion’

-‘this one had a handheld device…he pulled the trigger twice’ (he had a gun which he used to suck the bullets out of me)

-‘heat the oven up…we melted the bullets down’

-‘we took the secret of the gun and buried it deep within the earth’

The second idea was the acronym for the word heat in the song. I thought it was cool but alotta kids didn’t get it. HEAT stood for: Holyspirit Embodied As Teacher. And in the chorus I am saying that emcee’s can be dope as heck but if they aren’t led by God then they are still wack. People started calling the song ‘heat’ instead of ‘WoodBurnsFire’ (which was derived from the backwards gun idea).

People didn’t grasp onto the ideas as much as I wished they would have. Even so this was a popular request at shows. I would usually not do the second verse though, replacing it with a lot of crowd interaction. I would usually end a show (especially on my tours with P.O.D) with ‘Heat’ and then ‘Chant’.

In the song I liked how 7Lock backed up the track too. It ended up sounding real nice. Fingaz rocked the ill scratch of a Jeru song at the end. And if you listen in headphones you can hear the first time I used my now infamous ‘whisper’ backups.

            This track was recorded in Hollywood and remixed a few times in L.A. and San Diego before the final version

WoodBurnsFire 
(H.E.A.T-Holyspirit.Emodied.As.Teacher)

vs.1
THEY  TRIED  TO  DIS  THE  LOCUST  FIST
CLIMBIN  SIDEWAYS  THROUGH  THE  WINDOW,  BUT  THE  SECOND ONE  GOT  DISSED
SATELLITE  CONNECTION-CONNECT  ME  TO  MY  NUMBER  ONE
INSECT  REINFORCEMENT  MEET  AT  THE  JOINT  LIKE  SKELETON
EVIL  GRASSHOPPERS  MADE  A  MOVE  ON  US
CREATED  A  NEW  WEAPON  CALLED  CRANIUM  RUCUS-OR  GUN
RECEIVE  THE  PERIMETERS  OF  MY  MISSION
LETS  PUT  THE  SQUEEZE  ON  THEM  BUGS  LIKE  TWO  HANDS  AND ACCORDION
SOLAR  WIND  FASHION
PLANT  EXPLOSIVES-N-RUN
I  WANNA  GET  HOME  QUICK  SO  I  CAN  SEE  MY  CINNAMON
AND  CHILDREN-LETS  BLOW  THE  WICKED  OUT  THE  LAND
MOBILIZE-AND  SYNCHRONIZE  WATCHES  AT  MY  COMMAND
POSITIVELY  CHARGED-RADIUS  IS  LARGE
SECRET  UNDERGROUND  AGENTS  LIKE  MASONIC  LODGE
BEFORE  WE  DISMISS-AND  TAKE  CARE  OF  BUSINESS
RAISE  YOUR  ANTENNAE  AND  SING  THE  ANTHEM  OF  THE LOCUST.........

-EMCEES AIN'T NOTHIN IF THEY DON'T GOT H.E.A.T.
DON'T WEAR THE ARMOR-GET CRUSHED LIKE WHEAT
YOUR GHETTO SOUNDS ARE SWEET MELODIES
BUT THEY DON'T GOT NOTHIN IF THEY DON'T GOT H.E.A.T.

vs.2
A  CLOUDED  MIND  SEES  NOTHIN'
ALL  ALONG  THE  WATCHTOWER  THEY  SAID  THEY  SAW  AN ARMY  COMIN,
SOME  WERE  ON  HORSES-THE  OTHER  ONES  WERE  RUNNIN-                                 
IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  WICKED  MEN  THEY  SAW  THE  WEAPON
RUNNIN  PLOTS  TO  MAKE  US  BOW  LIKE  CELLO  OR  VIOLIN
WICKED  INSECTS  SNUFFIN  THE  SPIRIT  OF  MARANATHA
LETS  BREAK  UP  THEIR  PLANS  LIKE  BIRTHDAY  KIDS  AND  PINATA
----SPYIN ME WIT DEM BAD EYE---------
I  CALLED  BACK-UP  TO  THE  SPOT-LETS  STRIKE  WHILE  THE IRONS  HOT
BUT  THE  ENEMY  JUMPED  BACK  QUICK  AND  MY  SHIRT  WAS CAUGHT
CAPSULES  OF  METAL  WITH   EVIL INTENTION
WERE  PLACED  WITHIN  MY  BODY  WITH  DELAYED  EXPLOSION
I  SCREAMED  BLOOD,  MURDER  STYLE-BUT  NOBODY  HEARD  ME
THE  NEXT  DAY  I  AWOKE  WITH  VISIONS  OF  CEMETERY ACTIONS-STRONG  LIGHTS  WERE  BLAZIN  ON  ME
WHEN  I  CAME  TO, I  RECOGNIZED  DOCTORS  AROUND  ME
THIS  ONE  HAD  THIS  HANDHELD  DEVICE
TOUCHED  MY  SKIN  COLD  AS  ICE-HE  PULLED  THE  TRIGGER TWICE
I  LET  OUT-AS  THE  BULLETS  WERE  SUCKED  FROM  MY  CAVITY
MY  ANATOMY  NEEDED  TWO  WEEKS  OF  RECOVERY
NOW  LETS  FIND  THE  MYSTERY  OF  THE  WEAPON
HEAT  THE  OVEN  UP  FIFTY-ONE  HUNDRED  DEGREES  LIKE  DRAGON
FLAME-WE  MELTED  THE  BULLETS  DOWN
I  SEEN  THE  SECRET  COMPOUND
INSTILL  MY  PEOPLE  WITH  FEAR  AND  MAKE  THEM  LIE  DOWN
WE CAN'T  LET  THIS  INFORMATION  GET  AROUND.............
I  SEARCHED  MY  HEAD  FOR  AN  ANSWER  BUT  ONLY  ONE  COULD BE FOUND
THE  DEVILS  WORMS  ARE  AT  WORK
WE  TOOK  THE  SECRET  OF  THE  GUN  AND  BURIED  IT  DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH............
2 Comments
Troy link
12/8/2020 04:02:01 am

Your thhe best

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Jeremiah Dirt link
12/8/2020 07:20:54 pm

I dunno about the best... but top 20 for sure! hahaha - thanks for the encouragement

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