It's not a silly little moment
It's not the storm before the calm
This is the deep and dying breath of
This love that we've been working on
Can't seem to hold you like I want to
So I can feel you in my arms
Nobody's gonna come and save you
We pulled too many false alarms

We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room

I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it's nothing to me?
Baby, you're the only light I ever saw
I'll make the most of all the sadness
You'll be a bitch because you can
You'll try to hit me, just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
'Cause you can't understand

We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room

Go cry about it, why don't you?
Go cry about it, why don't you?
Go cry about it, why don't you?

My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room
Burning room
Burning room
Burning room
Burning room

Don't you think we ought to know by now?
Don't you think we should've learned somehow?
Don't you think we ought to know by now?
Don't you think we should've learned somehow?
Don't you think we ought to know by now?
Don't you think we should've learned somehow?


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Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Lyrics as written by John Clayton Mayer

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    this song really makes me think of that thing i read or heard somewhere: if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out but if you put a frog into a pot of cool water, and slowly turn up the heat, it will just sit there and boil to death.

    this song really sounds like a relationship based on that. if you had have been dropped into this relationship how it is now, you would have instantly jumped out. but since it has been a slow build, you're just sitting there boiling

    rocklandderekon February 09, 2007   Link

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