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Song · 1983 · New wave

Burning Down the House

1983

★ 7.3 editorial score

Frantz came home from a Parliament-Funkadelic show chanting it, and Byrne built the band's only American top ten.

From the album

Speaking in Tongues

Genre

Subject

Nonsense Escape

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“We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.”

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