Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
this is a really easy song to play, every time a chord is shown, play a quick strum
down-up-mute except burnign down the house is a constant fast strum
its a really fun song to play, and easy to leard, have fun!
Chords
normal G bar G normal F bar F A7
V V V V V
e|------3--------3---------1--------1------0------|e
B|------0--------3---------1--------1------2------|B
G|------0--------4---------2--------2------0------|G
D|------0--------5---------3--------3------2------|D
A|------2--------5------------------3------0------|A
E|------3--------3------------------1-------------|E
G G F
Watch out you might get what you're after
G G G F
Cool babies strange but not a stranger
G G F G
I'm an ord-in-ar-y guy
A7 F
Burning down the house
G G F
Hold tight wait till the party's over
G G G F
Hold tight We're in for nasty weather
G G F G
There has got to be a way
A7 F
Burning down the house
Here's your ticket pack your bag: time for jumpin' overboard
The transportation is here
Close enough but not too far, Maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire
G G F
All wet hey you might need a raincoat
G G G F
Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight
G G F G
Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees
A7 F
Burning down the house
It was once upon a place sometimes I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work baby what did you except
Gonna burst into flame
(weird music)
A7 F
Burning down the house
G G F
My house S'out of the ordinary
G G G F
That's might Don't want to hurt nobody
G G F G
Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
A7 F
Burning down the house
No visible means of support and you have not seen nuthin' yet
Everything's stuck together
I don't know what you expect starring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire
-shane
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
Dale :D Average |
#1 by Dale :D O' Mondo Of DOOM!!! at Oct 1, 2007 at 2:47 AM EST |
| The rhythm tracks were recorded before the song was written. THe lyrics are just as rhythmic as they are anything else. | |
Bassdude Average |
#2 by Bassdude at Oct 1, 2007 at 10:51 AM EST |
| "Hey lazy, boob-tube Americans, get off your arses and pay attention! Burn down the house (i.e. the status quo needs to go.)" | |
sebastian Professional |
#3 by sebastian at Oct 5, 2007 at 2:58 PM EST |
| Who says white folks don't have rhythm? | |
Michael Average |
#4 by Michael Vanderveen at Oct 6, 2007 at 12:10 AM EST |
| Byrne DID say that the song meant nothing at all. He said at the time (paraphrasing) "I really admire songwriters who can actually write a song about something specific." I think he was just being coy, though. Byrne is too intellectual to write a song about nothing at all. The nuclear holocaust theme does seem to fit the lyrics almost to a tee. | |
JustiN Professional |
#5 by JustiN at Oct 6, 2007 at 3:51 PM EST |
| PaliSteve is absolutly correct. This song is about nuclear warfare, the affects of a nuclear explosion, and the cold war. | |
brad Rhythm Player |
#6 by brad music at Oct 8, 2007 at 7:14 AM EST |
| Love the video to this song. One of my favorite TH videos, one of my favorite TH songs | |
Mike Average |
#7 by Mike heidkamp at Oct 12, 2007 at 7:51 AM EST |
| “Watch out you might get what you're after. Cool babes strange but not a stranger.” - Radioactive/dead babies. “I'm an ordinary guy. Burning down the house.” - Whose responsible? All of us. “Hold tight wait till the party's over. Hold tight we're in for nasty weather. There has got to be a way. Burning down the house.” - Nuclear blast. “Here's your ticket pack your bag:time for jumpin' overboard. The transportation is here.” - A-bombs. “Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are. Fightin' fire woth fire.” - Mutually assured destruction. “All wet hey you might need a raincoat.” - Fallout. (Black rain?) “Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight.” - Vaporized people. “Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees. Burning down the house. It was once upon a place sometimes i listen to myself. Gonna come in first place.” - Arms race. “People on their way to work baby what did you expect. Gonna burst into flame.” - More vaporized people (serves them right for not doing anything but making money). “My house S'out of the ordinary. That's might don't want to hurt nobody.” - Everyone, good and bad, gonna burn. “Some things sure can sweep me off my feet.” - Nuclear blast. “Burning down the house.” - (You get the drift.) “No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet.” - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nevada, Polynesia, India, Pakistan, France, Polynesian Islands, etc. “Everything's stuck together.” - Little fission to loosen the atoms. “I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set.” - Read some books dumbasses! “Fighting fire with fire.” - Song to fight the dumbing down effect of the tv tube. | |
kewl Wanna Be |
#8 by kewl dude at Oct 12, 2007 at 10:41 PM EST |
| nice Palistave. That was awesome. muchthanmore... You don't catch humor do you? Pity. :( | |
Euroynmous Average |
#9 by Euroynmous at Oct 20, 2007 at 8:24 AM EST |
| my guiltiest of guilty pleasure songs. i love it. | |
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