# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/41 "2014-12-14T00:51:34Z")
Burn Down the Malls-- Mojo Nixon Burning House of Love-- X ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/42 "2014-12-14T03:25:57Z")
_[Norwegian Wood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkcRZSdc8us)_ by the Beatles. I know there’s some debate about this, but I’ve always been quite certain that he burns her house down. "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me She showed me her room, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood? … … And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown So I lit a fire, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/43 "2014-12-14T04:17:55Z")
Two from Harry Chapin: “What Made America Famous” includes “hippies and some welfare cases” living in a “tinder box trap” that eventually catches fire. I love Chapin, but I find this song to be pretty heavy handed, even by his standards. Still, the depiction of the fire is pretty good. The second is a little off topic. “Burning Herself” is about a woman who burns herself with cigarettes because the pain is “easier to take than the emptiness of life.” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/44 "2014-12-14T18:46:28Z")
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning ETA: It’s a protest song about giving Native Australians their land back. There’s nothing literally burning, so I’m okay withdrawing it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/45 "2014-12-14T22:19:40Z")
How about a seasonal recommendation? Chaston Groditski - [We Burned the Christmas Tree](http://www.amazon.com/We-Burned-the-Christmas-Tree/dp/B0014FSDC2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418595486&sr=8-1&keywords=Chaston+Groditski+-+We+Burned+the+Christmas+Tree) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/46 "2014-12-14T22:26:28Z")
‘Girls in Their Summer Clothes’ - Bruce Springsteen A breeze crosses the porch Bicycle spokes spin 'round Jacket’s on, I’m out the door Tonight I’m gonna burn this town down ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/47 "2014-12-15T01:07:12Z")
“Firewoman” by The Cult: _My heart’s a ball of burnin’ flame._ ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/48 "2014-12-15T01:11:11Z")
Billy Ray Cyrus _Burn Down the Trailer Park_ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/49 "2014-12-15T08:38:35Z")
Some nerdcore for you: MC Lars _[Hot Girls Make Guys Do Really Stupid Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPpgfeXHHvY)_: “They burned down Troy to get you back Young thing, beauty queen, baby got back!” Then there’s Warren Zevon: [_I Was In The House When The House Burned Down_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MefNV-XZs5g) (title is it) ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/50 "2014-12-15T09:07:53Z")
Tom Waits, Franks Wild Years. MC 900ft Jesus, The City Sleeps Bob Marley, Talking Blues (it looks like I was wrong on this one, Bombing not Burning) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/51 "2014-12-15T13:43:38Z")
Steve Earle - [Burnin’ it Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBlXEy9WhrQ) _I’m thinkin’ about burnin’ it down, boys Thinkin’ about burnin’ it down Nothing’s ever gonna be the same in this town I’m thinkin’ about burnin’ the Walmart down_ ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/52 "2014-12-15T14:14:31Z")
Dokken Paris is burning ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/53 "2014-12-17T01:18:15Z")
Jackson Browne, _Rock Me on the Water_, “While your walls are burning, and your towers are turning…” Neil Young, _Don’t Let It Bring You Down_, “It’s only castles burning” ---
**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 17, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045/54 "2014-12-17T19:17:32Z")
Slave driver, the table is turned. Catch a fire, you gonna get burned. —The Wailers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-song/707045.md?page=2)