Burning Down the House - CocoRosie

Bums rushed out the door

Momma didn’t want you anymore

A thornless rose in her side

A burden despite

Being bonded by blood lines

It wasn’t the right time

She said «No more free load,

This is the end of the freak show»

Half shaved and heart broke

Half slewed and half snapped

A rat trap snapping back

Hand bone, hand me down

Baloney sandwich, lonely clown

Smoke, laugh, toke, craft

Porn, blood, piss, grass

Kiss, miss, heart, hand

Tried to take a stand

Down dropped sales low

The joys and woes

The curtains slowly close

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

(Smoke 'em out, smoke 'em out, the dead girl shouts)

I was on the verge like so many times

Got children and wives waving forks and knives

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

The new sound circles round

Slaughter raging, death dice fall, hot house burn down

Foes upon foes, west to east it goes

The dead girl says «Let's just be friends»

In the glorious tone of marrow and bone

These days of ore

The chance we meet once more

The smoke lightening crack asunder

The peel of guns and the boom of thunder

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

(Smoke 'em out, smoke 'em out, the dead girl shouts)

I was on the verge like so many times

Got children and wives waving forks and knives

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts

Burning down the house

(I was on the verge like so many times)

(Got children and wives waving forks and knives)

To smoke them out

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts

Burning down the house

To smoke them out

Burning down the house

The dead girl shouts