Comments on: San Diego’s Burning: Songs about Fire http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/ A series of successes earmarked by blistering failures... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:07:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mandar http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-46 Mandar Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:12:23 +0000 http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-46 Actually it's "California's Burning" to be exact Shaners. :) Go SD. Glad you're safe. We are too and so's our casa. California's Burning by Augustana "California's burning, burning, burning to the ground... and my head is turning, turning, turning round and round... alie's stomach's churning, churning, like a storm today... and your mother's crying, crying, closing up the safe... and I'm here, wondering where the sun has gone... driving through a Midwest storm, asking why there's no one home... Encinitas likes to miss me, like nobody's child.. and my eyes like rainy Tuesdays, like to watch you smile... and I'm here, wondering where the sun has gone... driving through a Midwest storm, asking why there's no one home... Actually it’s “California’s Burning” to be exact Shaners. :)
Go SD. Glad you’re safe. We are too and so’s our casa.

California’s Burning by Augustana

“California’s burning, burning, burning to the ground…
and my head is turning, turning, turning round and round…
alie’s stomach’s churning, churning, like a storm today…
and your mother’s crying, crying, closing up the safe…

and I’m here, wondering where the sun has gone…
driving through a Midwest storm,
asking why there’s no one home…

Encinitas likes to miss me, like nobody’s child..
and my eyes like rainy Tuesdays, like to watch you smile…

and I’m here, wondering where the sun has gone…
driving through a Midwest storm,
asking why there’s no one home…

]]> By: shanejr http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-42 shanejr Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:52:15 +0000 http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-42 thanks Paul! Amanda mentioned 'California is Burning' by another SD band called Augustana too! thanks Paul!
Amanda mentioned ‘California is Burning’ by another SD band called Augustana too!

]]> By: Paul Coover http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-41 Paul Coover Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:47:57 +0000 http://acoatofredpaintinhell.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/san-diegos-burning-songs-about-fire/#comment-41 Perhaps most fitting of all: "San Diego's Burning," by SD's own Agent 51: I'm a hard working man, yeah I'm down on my luck With a broom and a dustpan, just tryin' to raise a buck It's not the fact that I don't wanna work I'm just not gonna take it anymore Spillin' my guts out every night For a bunch of blank stares just looking for a fight It's not that the fact that I don't wanna work But we're screamin' for change once again. Voices cry out deep in the night The streets are empty again But what's the explanation for just putting up a fight When San Diego's burning within. Yeah, nobody here wants to do it Unless somebody else does it first Take a look around, watch it burn into the ground The condition's gone from bad to worse Time is running out, and the future's full of doubt Are the good times really over? We can make the good times now A neurotic, self conscious, superficial wasteland Is what I would call my town I try to think back to other times I try to remember when What's the explanation for just putting up a fight When everybody's trying to win Burn it down to the ground Perhaps most fitting of all: “San Diego’s Burning,” by SD’s own Agent 51:

I’m a hard working man, yeah I’m down on my luck

With a broom and a dustpan, just tryin’ to raise a buck

It’s not the fact that I don’t wanna work

I’m just not gonna take it anymore

Spillin’ my guts out every night

For a bunch of blank stares just looking for a fight

It’s not that the fact that I don’t wanna work

But we’re screamin’ for change once again.

Voices cry out deep in the night

The streets are empty again

But what’s the explanation for just putting up a fight

When San Diego’s burning within.

Yeah, nobody here wants to do it

Unless somebody else does it first

Take a look around, watch it burn into the ground

The condition’s gone from bad to worse

Time is running out, and the future’s full of doubt

Are the good times really over? We can make the good times now

A neurotic, self conscious, superficial wasteland

Is what I would call my town

I try to think back to other times

I try to remember when

What’s the explanation for just putting up a fight

When everybody’s trying to win

Burn it down to the ground

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