Burn The House Down

"**Burn The House Down**" is the fourteenth track on the deluxe version of AJR's second album, *The Click*. It was also released as a single 6 months earlier.

This song was also performed at the One Spectacular Night live show in 2020.

## Background

The song was initially composed out from a request from filmmaker Morgan Spurlock for AJR to create a theme song to his film *Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!*

## Lyrics

* Original
* Clean
* Unreleased

Used to keep it cool
Used to be a fool
All about the bounce in my step
Watch it on the news
Whatcha gonna do?
I could hit refresh and forget
Used to keep it cool

Should I keep it light?
Stay out of the fight?
No one's gonna listen to me
If I write a song
Preaching what is wrong
Will they let me sing on TV?
Should I keep it light?
Is that right?
(Is that right?)

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
You're only serving lies
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
We gon' burn the whole house down

Yeah
Used to let it go
Walk into the show
Gawking at the tricks up your sleeve
Too good to be truthful
I'm in a room
Full of entertainers and thieves
Used to let it go
Woah, oh no
(Whoa, oh no)

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
You're only serving lies
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
We gon' burn the whole house down

(We gon' burn the whole house down)
Should I hang my head low?
Should I bite my tongue?
Or should I march with every stranger from Twitter to get shit done?
Used to hang my head low
Now I hear it loud
Every stranger from Twitter is gonna burn this down

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line, (whoa oh)
You're only serving lies, (yeah)
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
Whoa oh, yeah
We gon' burn the whole house down
We burn it down, we burn it down
We gon' burn the whole house down

Used to keep it cool
Used to be a fool
All about the bounce in my step
Watch it on the news
Whatcha gonna do?
I could hit refresh and forget
Used to keep it cool

Should I keep it light?
Stay out of the fight?
No one's gonna listen to me
If I write a song
Preaching what is wrong
Will they let me sing on TV?
Should I keep it light?
Is that right?
(Is that right?)

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
You're only serving lies
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
We gon' burn the whole house down

Yeah
Used to let it go
Walk into the show
Gawking at the tricks up your sleeve
Too good to be true
But I'm in a room
Full of entertainers and thieves
Used to let it go
Woah, oh no
(Whoa, oh no)

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
You're only serving lies
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
We gon' burn the whole house down

(We gon' burn the whole house down)
Should I hang my head low?
Should I bite my tongue?
Or should I march with every stranger from Twitter to get it done?
Used to hang my head low
Now I hear it loud
Every stranger from Twitter is gonna burn this down

Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gon' burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line, (whoa oh)
You're only serving lies, (yeah)
You've got something to hide
We gon' burn the whole house down
Whoa oh, yeah
We gon' burn the whole house down
We burn it down, we burn it down
We gon' burn the whole house down

 Used to keep it cool
Used to be a fool
All about the bounce in my step

Watch it on the news,
What you gonna do? I can’t even guess where you’ve been
Used to keep it cool

Yeah

Used to keep it fun
Nickel in a cup
Scooping all the air from my lungs

Now I’m up and up
Pick me up and run
You can never take what I love
I should keep it fun

Oh I’m done

Way up way we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way oh no
We gon burn the house down

Watch me standing in line
You’re only serving lies
You’ve got something to hide
We gon burn the whole house down

Used to let it go
Walk into the show
Gawking at the tricks up your sleeve

Too good to be true
Fool, I’m in a room
Full of entertainers and thieves

Used to let it go

We can let it burn Tables outa turn
Maybe we can bring down the gate
Best I’m on my should-ers
I’m gonna hold ya Until we build(?) it away

We can let it burn
Up and turn

Way up way we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way oh no
We gon burn the house down

Watch me standing in line
You’re only serving lies
You’ve got something to hide
We gon burn the whole house down

Yeah, yeah

We gon burn the whole house down
We gon burn the whole house down

## Audio

* Spotify
* YouTube

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## Videos

* Official Videos
* Performances

AJR - Burn The House Down (Official Video)Burn The House Down (Official Video)

AJR - Burn The House Down (Live From One Spectacular Night)Live from One Spectacular NightAJR - Burn the House Down Live 11-5-18Live at RebelAJR - Burn The House Down -LIVE @ SiriusXM-Live at SiriusXMBurn The House Down - AJR live - NYC 10-10-19 Neotheater TourLive in NYC
## Trivia

* A joke about the line "used to keep it cool" being misheard as "you sticky pickle" spread around AJR forums. An example of this meme is in this video, uploaded by AEIOU on May 1, 2018.
* This song is one of the few songs, along with the Overtures, Growing Old on Bleecker Street*,* 3 O'Clock Things*,* AfterHours and The Trick*,* whose lyrics don't contain its title. The closest it ever gets to its title in the lyrics is the line in the chorus that goes "We gon' *burn the* whole *house down*".
* This song was played live on The Click Tour before the release of the studio version, which had different lyrics.
	+ This is the first song to be revealed in this way, before I Won't.