It's a desire to set a blaze See the fire rise The beauty of destruction Something turns from white into black Then it fades away So fascinating and so beyond belief It's in the nature of mankind to feel this way An inborn captivation In a time where reading is illegal And even having books is prohibited Literacy is oppressed The termination of having a mind on one's own starts Loss of identity Mass conformity The roll of mass media grows The display dictates the routine There is information everywhere Trivial or fundamental? The line becomes thinner Friends and relatives are networked digitally The changes in the world affected the activities of the firemen Instead of choking fires they start fires to burn the unlawful books Like a circus show People on the streets are watching the firefighters march out The books are put on a pyre and then the fire releases The stench of burning thoughts