DESCRIPTION:
Artist(s): Dirt
Song: WoodBurnsFire (H.E.A.T)
Word Count: 400
Producer: Fingaz
Recorded: Abbot Sounds
Album: Plague (Rescue rec. 1997 available @ http://jeremiahdirt.bandcamp.com/ )

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"


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



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