After losing his home in the Palisades fires, a musician creates a raw and hopeful song and video reflecting on the loss, the anger, and the determination to move forward. The song confronts the fire itself, but ultimately offers a message of resilience for anyone experiencing catastrophic loss.
,” lost his home of more than 20 years in the Palisades fires. Now he is channeling that devastation into a stirring new song and video, “” is raw and honest, but it is not nihilistic. There is beauty in it, and more importantly, there is hope.
’s white picket fence going up in flames, the kind of moment that feels unreal until it is playing back on a screen. Kahn watched it with his father from only miles away. “I looked at my Dad and said, ‘it’s gone,’ and he just nodded. There wasn’t much to say,”performing the song. and it’s not hard to feel how personal it is. The lighting, the framing, and the atmosphere evoke the fire without relying on spectacle. Apart from the Ring footage, there are no direct visuals of the catastrophe that destroyed thousands of homes and took lives in the Palisades and Altadena on January 7, 2025.The lyrics hit hard in the second person, as if the fire itself is being confronted and put on trial. It is the sound of someone staring down the thing that took everything: You came in, you didn’t use the door and If I ever should see your face, I’ll tell you go back to hell ‘cause that’s the only place I won’t look for you. I won’t waste another day in the ashesdoes not soften the anger, but he does not stay there either. The song ultimately lands on a promise to keep going, and to smile again on the other side of the burn. He told Breitbart the message is broader than one disaster, and meant for anyone living through catastrophic loss. “This is afor the thousands of victims that experienced what I did, but maybe even more broadly than that, I hope it moves those who have experienced any catastrophic loss in their lives,”said. “It happens every day, whether it be hurricanes, illness, or death. I lost my house. I lost a lot of stuff. But I’m still here and there are so many that have experienced worse.”The road back has been filled with barriers, but also unexpected lessons. Kahn has since relocated to Nashville, a move he had been considering for years. He said he could never quite make the leap until the fire forced a hard reset. “I just couldn’t pull the trigger. I think I was stuck in my life, and it’s hard to believe, but the fire may have been the push I needed to start a whole new chapter,” he said. “After a pretty rough start, Nashville is starting to feel like home. I guess maybe sometimes things need to burn to understand where you need to be.”and many other victims, the past year has been a grind of insurance fights, confusing permitting, and what he described as a fundamental failure of city and state leadership. In fact, CBS“The only ones who came in and did exactly what they said they were going to do were the feds led by EPA Administrator Zeldin,” he said. “The EPA cleared the lots in roughly 30 days. It’s what came after that was beyond disheartening and seemed like a play to break the collective will of the residents.”“It’s not really about right or left, but rather, right and wrong,” he said. “Great leaders, left or right, make you feel safe, and I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a victim of these fires who felt like anybody had their back. Where is Bass? Where is Newsom? Where are the two senators from California, Schiff and Padilla? Why are the only investigations being spearheaded by Senators Scott and Johnson, two Republican senators who are not from California?”returned to the one thing that has kept him grounded for years: his music…but not right away. He didn’t write a song for months after the fires. He simply, as he put it, “walked by all his instruments, looked at them, and then kept walking,” but eventually he sat down at an out of tune piano, and “After it Burns” poured out “To be creative is really the only way I’ve known in my life to deal with hardship. For me, it’s the most honest way and I can only hope that the song reaches some folks who are dealing with their own hardships”All that matters now is where you turnAll that matters now is where you turnCorrupt Klobuchar Mulls Campaign to Replace Walz as Governor of MinnesotaDemocrats Fundraise in Protest of Maduro CaptureReport: JD Vance Home Vandalization Suspect Has Criminal Record, Demanded Law Enforcement Call Him ‘Julia’Nolte: Hillary Clinton Libels Trump with False Claim He ‘Urged Supporters to Attack Congress’ on January 6WATCH: George Conway Weaponizes January 6 Anniversary to Kick Off Anti-Trump Congressional BidMarlow: Trump’s Arrest of Maduro All About Keeping China Out of Our Hemisphere
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