Talking Heads, Burning Down the House (1979)
Key: :[F#] (w: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) (BPM: 103) US#6
VERSE 1:
[F#] Watch out,
[F#] [E] you might get what you're after
[F#] Cool
[F#] babies,
[F#] [E] strange but not a stranger
[F#] I'm
[F#] an
[E] ordinary
[F#] guy
[G#7] Burning down the
[E] house
VERSE 2:
[F#] Hold tight,
[F#] [E] wait till the party's over
[F#] Hold
[F#] tight,
[F#] [E] we're in for nasty weather
[F#] There
[F#] has
[E] got to be a
[F#] way
[G#7] Burning down the
[E] house
CHORUS 1:
[F#] Here's your ticket pack your bag:
[E] time for jumpin' overboard
[F#] The transportation is
[E] here
[F#] Close enough but not too far,
[E] maybe you know where you are
[F#] Fightin' fire with
[E] fire
VERSE 3:
[F#] All wet,
[F#] [E] hey you might need a raincoat
[F#] Shake
[F#] down,
[F#] [E] dreams walking in broad daylight
[F#] Three hun-
[F#]-dred
[E] sixty five deg-
[F#]-rees
[G#7] Burning down the
[E] house
CHORUS 2:
[F#] It was once upon a place,
[E] sometimes I listen to myself
[F#] Gonna come in first
[E] place
[F#] People on their way to work,
[E] baby what did you expect
[F#] Gonna burst into
[E] flames
INTERLUDE:
[G#7] Burning down the
[E] house
VERSE 4:
[F#] My house
[F#] [E] s'out of the ordinary
[F#] That's
[F#] right,
[F#] [E] don't wanna hurt nobody
[F#] Some things sure
[F#] can
[E] sweep me off my
[F#] feet
[G#7] Burning down the
[E] house
CHORUS 3:
[F#] No visible means of support and
[E] you have not seen nothin' yet
[F#] Everything's stuck
[E] together
[F#] I don't know what you expect,
[E] staring into the TV set
[F#] Fighting fire with
[E] fire
