At the corner of your mouth there is lightning

 

I am burning my fingers

Trying to remove the skin of a roasted red pepper

But someone, somewhere is dying

This songs climax is the lead singer screaming

‘ITS FADING’

But rather than the music dying down

It is getting louder and louder

So he must mean that the silence is fading

To successfully remove the skin of a red pepper

It needs to be roasted until wrinkly

Like a digit that has spent too long in a bath

Then removed and covered in cling film

To steam, which aids the process

The song has finished now

In the time it has taken me to write this poem

Scores of people have died around the world

I have adequately skinned a pepper

The vocalist has cleverly finished his song

And you have still not moved