# I burning your song! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045 "2014-12-12T18:01:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/21 "2014-12-12T19:12:59Z")
Alice Cooper-Burning Our Bed Over Kill-Feel the Fire Diamondhead (or Metallica) Am I Evil? (or are we only looking for _things_ that get burned down and not people?) Wallflowers- One Headlight ( “…I’d like to watch it burn…”) Talking Heads -Burning Down the House, oddly enough playing on my phone right now. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/22 "2014-12-12T19:26:25Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > “Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield” - Randy Newman Also “Burn On.” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/23 "2014-12-12T19:42:03Z")
Sting - “_[I burn for you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgxy9lMbqJc)_” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/24 "2014-12-12T19:52:06Z")
“And I burned down the malt shop where we used to go Just because it reminds me of you.” -Weird Al Yankovic, “One More Minute” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/25 "2014-12-12T19:55:03Z")
“[Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c)” - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown _I am the god of hellfire and I bring you: Fire, I’ll take you to burn. Fire, I’ll take you to learn. I’ll see you burn!_ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/26 "2014-12-12T19:59:03Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > “Sonny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin > > “Dry is good and wind is better” “Strike a match, go on and do it” I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/27 "2014-12-12T20:44:31Z")
Burn Hollywood Burn - Public Enemy ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/28 "2014-12-12T20:48:00Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Oh, and duh… > > Deep Purple - “Smoke On The Water”. > [@cochrane](#): > > Second post. That’s what I get for searching for just the song title instead of the lyrics… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/29 "2014-12-12T20:56:02Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Some of these mention burn, but not burning down. > > Clarification **Shoeless**? Yeah I was looking more for burning stuff down, not just fire or burning in general. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/30 "2014-12-12T21:54:17Z")
**Independence Day** by Martina McBride. _Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July By the time that the firemen come They just put out the flames, and took down some names_ ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/31 "2014-12-12T22:06:28Z")
The Smiths - Panic _“Burn down the disco… Hang the blessed DJ…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/32 "2014-12-12T22:36:58Z")
“Love the Way You Lie” - Eminem and Rihanna " (…Imma tie her to the bed and set this fucking house on fire.") ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/33 "2014-12-12T22:47:16Z")
U2 - “Bullet The Blue Sky” _See them burning crosses See the flames higher and higher…_ (Not sure if this qualifies as burning stuff down, bur it’s more than just “burning”) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/34 "2014-12-12T23:02:17Z")
Nickleback-Burn it to the ground I only know this because it was the Raw theme song for a year or two, not because I listen to Nickleback ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/35 "2014-12-13T00:02:36Z")
It’s a stretch, but Proud Mary: “Big wheel keep on turnin’, Proud Mary keep on burnin’.” “Burning Bridges”, One Republic ---
**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/36 "2014-12-13T14:33:42Z")
35 posts already and nobody has mentioned Elvis’s “Hunk o’ Burnin’ Love?” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/37 "2014-12-13T15:01:36Z")
Bob Marley and the Wailers—“[Ride, Natty, Ride](http://youtu.be/fGc73MqWouU)” And it’s the fire (fire), it’s the fire (fire) That’s burning down everything […] Now the fire is out of control Panic in the city, wicked weeping for their gold! Everywhere this fiyah is burning, Destroying and melting their gold, Destroying and wasting their souls. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/38 "2014-12-13T23:11:23Z")
Wow … 37 posts and “Light My Fire” by the Doors hasn’t been mentioned. Kids these days; get off my lawn! OK, maybe not actually burning something down, but if you set the night on fire, something’s gonna burn down. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/39 "2014-12-13T23:54:58Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > Wow … 37 posts and “Light My Fire” by the Doors hasn’t been mentioned. > > Kids these days; get off my lawn! > > OK, maybe not actually burning something down, but if you set the night on fire, something’s gonna burn down. Only if you’re careless with your lit marihuana cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/40 "2014-12-14T00:40:22Z")
How about “I burned a hole in the dining room table”, from “P.s. I Love You”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045.md?page=3)