Difference between revisions of "Fire"

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Songs that mention fire or the process of burning:

Central theme

• Burning Coffee
• Dog On Fire
• Everything Is Catching On Fire
• Fire
• If I Wasn't Shy - "I'd burn all the uniforms", etc.
• Kumbaya - "Something's burning, my Lord"
• The Sun Is On Fire
• You're On Fire

Briefly mentioned

• Answer - "The cake was lit and as you blew the candles out..."
• By The Time You Get This - "We'll have all gone up in smoke"
• Cage And Aquarium - "Yawn as your plane goes down in flames"
• Canajoharie - "They smoked the proof"; "A rocket ship experiment went awry when the prototype exploded on the launching site"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "A fire is doused"
• Different Town - "Bubs would give away flame throwers"
• The End Of The Tour - "I was bent metal, you were a flaming wreck / When we kissed at the overpass"
• The Everlasting Vibe - "I had crashed and burned"
• Fun Assassin - "Like a magnet to a flame"
• I'll Sink Manhattan - "Burn your forget-me-nots"
• I'm Impressed - "That Godzilla's flaming breath"
• Impossibly New - "Burning leaves and morning suits"; "As we gather round the campfire"
• In Fact - "They march with pitchforks and torches now"
• It Never Fails - "Burns her factory to the floor"
• The Lady And The Tiger - "Burn a hole in the wall"; "You'll start a fire, destroy the entire Lady and the Tiger hall"
• Let Your Hair Hang Down - "Who said to stomp the fire out?"
• Moonbeam Rays - "You at night by the bonfire blaze"
• Museum Of Idiots - "I guess I'll still be around when they burn, burn it down"
• Never Knew Love - "The few who so hale and hearty, now broken down and burned"
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Fire alarms go off in your head"
• No One Knows My Plan - "Why the smell of burning autumn leaves"
• Old Pine Box - "You pulled the fire alarm"
• One More Parade - "Light the flame", "World's in flames"
• Operators Are Standing By - "Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee"
• Our Cannibal Friends - "The bar fire's started"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "With the burn-smell factory closing up"
• Rest Awhile - "Out of the burning wreckage I fell"
• Shape Shifter - "They said the planet wouldn't undulate and then burst into flames"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary - "We used models painted to look like humans and then set on fire"
• Stand On Your Own Head - "I see smoke signals coming from them / They say, 'We are out of furniture'"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "Autumn leaves will burn"
• The Statue Got Me High - "And when the screaming fire engine siren filled the air", other references to things burning and frying, and a burning Linnell in the music video
• Thermostat - "Or is the thermostat engulfed in flames, or is it just me?"
• Thinking Machine - "Uncle fourteen marching flame"
• Three Might Be Duende - "Hot from the embers"
• Tick Tick Tick Tick- "Setting fire to a draft of the flowchart"
• Trucker's Coffee - "One truck was on fire and spinning around"
• Walk On Water - "I made it through the fire", "I'm gonna dance through the fire"
• We Want A Rock - "Someone in this town is trying to burn the playhouse down"
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine? - "The sun is a quagmire / It's not made of fire"
• Wicked Little Critta - "As he proceeds to torch the place / As he proceeds to scorch the place"
• With The Dark - "Rusted, crusted, combusted, and dusted"
• Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire - "Burning money all day"
• Yeh Yeh - "And when she kisses, I feel the fire get hot"

Honorable mention

• The Don't Let's Start cover consists of a snowman warming himself over a pile of burning money.