In contrast to The Rolling Stones' bullish set the night before, the Londoners had appeared on stage quietly, playing the slow-burning Lovers' Eyes on a pitch-black stage.
He captures the loneliness and pathos of Crane the maverick, Crane the prodigal son, the blowhard, the drunken buffoon, the forlorn lover, burning bridge after bridge until he was caught, in his own words, "like a rat in a trap".
That last thing especially shared finances can be straining on a relationship, since buying things you don't need with your own cash is one thing, but burning through your lover's savings is one of the quickest ways to end up single.
That last thing especially – shared finances – can be straining on a relationship, since buying things you don't need with your own cash is one thing, but burning through your lover's savings is one of the quickest ways to end up single.
Spying on both lovers, burning with her own unfulfilled desires, Xiu is meant to add another level of romantic fantasy, but proves to be little more than an annoying distraction.
Stories about burning bushes, whales, sons, lovers, betrayals and rivalries.
A rough deal all round, then – but in their perfect articulation, poems like this offer as much assuagement as there is to find, and keep the fire of love burning way beyond the lovers' own deaths, its raw intimacy as present as ever.
It's the burning question that keeps compost lovers with heaping piles up at night: "Do I turn that sucker or what??" Turning a compost pile is an absolutely optional maintenance task.
Sophocles' play begins after the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, with Electra burning for revenge.
A man gets a seven-year fixed term sentence for dousing his wife and her lover with petrol and burning them to death – and laughs about it on the exercise yard.
