You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned

The story behind

The Alan Parsons Project recorded You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned in 1982, within the album Eye in the Sky. The song has a clear rhythm, with a structure that moves between the direct and the more elaborate. In the middle, there is a bridge that becomes more complex, as if the band were playing with the listener's expectations. The main vocals become more intense, and the band adds a touch of progressive rock that contrasts with the more pop base. The lyrics speak of a dystopian future, of technology that controls people's lives, and of passive resistance against that control. The song ends with a repeated phrase, like a warning that cannot be overlooked. It is a piece that mixes the accessible with the conceptual, and feels like a clear, though not very conventional, proposal.