London's Burning

Album: The Temper Trap (2012)
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  • Heavy is the hand pressing down again and again
    Something free, something get chains
    We all came to play the game

    Will tomorrow come for the men stuck in the line?
    There's a rumor circling
    London's burning from within

    Hey, London's burning
    And it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, there's no future in sight
    Hey, London's burning
    No, it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, everything is nothing

    Ideology isn't nothing on the streets
    No one cared and no one looked
    Till she threw the judge's book

    Now who's the one to blame when the children go insane?
    Dancing on their broken dreams
    While London's burning from within

    Hey, London's burning
    And it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, there's no future in sight
    Hey, London's burning
    No, it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, everything is nothing

    The streets are burning up
    Climb each other and fall again
    The streets are burning up

    Hey, London's burning
    And it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, there's no future in sight
    Hey, London's burning
    No, it doesn't matter how hard we try
    Hey, London's burning
    Everything is nothing, everything is nothing
    Everything is nothing, everything is nothing Writer/s: ABBY MANDAGI, JONATHAN DAVID AHERNE, TOBIAS JAMES DUNDAS
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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