Name: Burn the Whole Thing Down
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: Sometimes, even tightrope walkers get fed up with the job.

Burn the Whole Thing Down

from Our Damned Selves by Carrie Myers + The Proper Way

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Sometimes, even tightrope walkers get fed up with the job.

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Sick of walking this tight rope
From one end to the other
One foot then another
There and back again

Don't know how much longer
I can make this one way wander
Begin to look beyond the
Places I have been

Gotta burn the whole thing down
Burn all of it down
Gotta burn the whole thing down
And start again

Oh when I fall down
Oh when I meet ground
Oh when I find silence in the sounds
Oh, I'll stay down, down, down, down

This line of friction
It bears my indecision
My movements need revision
Learn to lean another way

There ain't no changing
My familiar situation
There's just one single station
Always saying what's to blame

If I turn the whole thing down
Turn all of it down
Turn the whole thing down
And start again

Oh when I fall down
Oh when I meet ground
Oh when I find silence in the sounds
Oh, I'll stay down, down, down, down

Gonna burn this whole thing down
Gonna burn all of this down
Gonna burn this whole thing down
And start again.

If I turn the whole thing down
Turn all of it down
Turn the whole thing down
And start again

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from Our Damned Selves, track released August 19, 2001
All sounds by The Proper Way, except:

Upright bass: Zaza Historia Vandyke

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