Burning was never meant to be a hit, and even Abel knew as much.
I mean, the song had all the rock vibe and all, but it simply wasn't something they could perform to an open audience.
True rock fans had all manner of weird tastes in music, but the thing they had made was one hell of a terror. To perform it, maybe they would have to first put some kind of warning or something.
It wasn't to say that it wasn't popular.
No... it was currently three weeks on YouTube and had 200k views. To them, that was a big start—not big enough as they envisioned, but then it was just the start.
Perhaps the biggest role the song had played was helping the band gel together; they had now experienced working together and the challenges of creating a song. They also were now familiar with the array of personalities from each one of them.
Some things, however, still remained.