Burning Down the House Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MonkeyNum7 

Cover art for Burning Down the House lyrics by Talking Heads

it wasn't lyrical imagination on david byrne's part. chris frantz just came back from a parliment funkadelic concert and he was yelling one of the p-funk audience chants during a jam session, which was "burn down the house". byrne liked the phrase and turned it into "burning down the house".