Burning High (also known as "Dead Time") is an unidentified rock song misattributed to Velvet Revolver.
Search History[]
On January 6th, 2022, YouTube user J. Eloy Jimenez uploaded the song on YouTube as “unknown 2”. He stated in the comments that it was downloaded from eDonkey around 2006, mislabeled as "Dead Time" by Velvet Revolver.
Discord user “egg moment” created a thread for the song in the Fond My Mind server. The user also found another Velvet Revolver outfake, presumably by the same artist as "Dead Time", called "Embrace".
Aside from that, there was not much of a search effort within the thread until September 3rd, 2024, when user OrangeOzarka caught wind of the song, joined the thread, and did some research. She found some forum posts from 2004-2005, mentioning the songs were part of a group of Velvet Revolver outfakes, with the other songs being called Faithful, Vengeful God and Breaking Point.
The first two songs (as well as Embrace) having been found by egg moment to supposedly come from an Argentine bootleg CD called “Velvet Revolver - Live at the Rey Theater 2003”. Barely any information about the CD exists online aside from a Discogs listing. Vengeful God wasn't on YouTube, and Faithful only had a vocal cover by someone else available.
LWFinder also joined the thread, finding audio for Faithful, Vengeful God and Breaking Point on Soulseek. Breaking Point was easily identifiable as 27 by the band Breaking Point, but the other two were found to sound identical to the vocalist and general style of Dead Time and Embrace, and were just as mysterious. It's theorized that Dead Time was also on the “Rey Theater” CD, but under a different title.
The earliest known online mention of the song was May 2004, but could have been recorded in 2003, judging by the name of the bootleg CD and metadata from the Vengeful God audio file.
Possible lyrics[]
Tables are turning now
but we're here somehow
? we're the same
I'm sickened by my mind
still I'm [stuck/stiff inside]
play a crooked game
candles burning high
dead time passing by
can i call this face my own
candles burning high
dead time passing by
about to face me all alone
wires crossed up there
I see them then I stare
but nothing comes along
red lights flashing by
I'm [driving] I can't cry
now something must be wrong
candles burning high
dead time passing by
can I call this place my own
candles burning high
dead time passing by
about to face me all alone
(no)
candles burning high
dead time passing by
how can I call this face my own
candles burning high
dead time passing by
about to face me all alone
candles burning high
dead time passing by
how can I call this face my own
candles burning high
dead time passing by
about to face me all alone