Welcome back to another #MusicMonday! It’s not about books, but about music, and I’m looking forward to presenting you with a taste of my playlist. It’s the brainchild of Drew from The Tattooed Book Geek, but my inspiration comes from the lovely Claire from A Knight’s Reads. Every Monday, I’ll be choosing a song to share with you. The Spotify playlist is here and it will be updated as I go along.

It wasn’t easy for me to pick a track this week as, unusually for me, there have been very few music based escapades. So I’m choosing a song I heard for the first time on the Skin Show on Absolute Radio that I’d never heard before. I feel like both the artist and the song are under played, so I hope you enjoy!

Josephine Oniyama: Burn

All those pretty faces lost in your history
They still remember your name, but you forget so easily
Now that you’re really hurting, I can’t find sympathy
Not when your chain of betrayal it started out with me

And now you can’t go back and fix the damage done

Have you been playing the liar, like you always do?
Have you been setting fire to hearts that don’t belong to you?
You fall in love at the start and never see it through
Now it’s your turn to burn, burn, burn, burn

And now you want to be told that everything’s alright
To be rid of the pain, no matter what the price
But it’s not something I can say, you’ll have to live with the hurt
Just wait until it subsides, until the tide has turned

And now you can’t go back and fix the damage done

Have you been playing the liar, like you always do?
Have you been setting fire to hearts that don’t belong to you?
You fall in love at the start, but never see it through
Now it’s your turn to burn

In ways only heartbreakers burn
In ways only heartbreakers learn
Burn, burn, burn, burn

Because you can’t go back and fix the damage done

Have you been playing the liar, like you always do?
Have you been setting fire to hearts that don’t belong to you?
You fall in love at the start, but never see it through
Now it’s your turn to burn

Songwriters: Samuel Ronald Dixon / Josephine Ejiroghene Oniyama

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Until next time!