Flame Kissed Thoughts came early. It was one of the first songs we recorded for Green Electric Chapel.
It opens as a waltz, two people turning slowly, holding on to each other. Then the melody goes off after something and the chords follow it somewhere else, outside the time the song is keeping, away from the notes that should be holding it up. The two halves never agree. They fit anyway, and the fit is the trouble: two habits, two separate endings, close enough together to catch. The spark takes everything with it. What it leaves behind is beautiful and it was never going to last.
It was a hard song to record.
The video was shot on the mountain paths above Şirince, in Selçuk, away from the main roads, and at the single column still standing at the Temple of Artemis.