• Artist: Amanda Thorpe
  • Title: Burn This House Down
  • Genre: Country - Alternative, Pop - Adult Contemporary
  • Mood: Dramatic
  • Speed: Medium Slow (63-78)
  • Instruments: Acoustic Piano, Real Drums/Drum Kit, Electric Guitar (Clean, Overdriven), Bass
  • Track type: Lyric - Full Length
  • Date added: 1/6/2010
  • Lyric themes: Broken-Hearted, Love Lost, Fighting Arguing
  • Lyrics: Burn up the papers That we had both signed Your gentle aspersions You cannot disguise As you burn this house down Burn me of meaning Loose feeling with time I thought I was dreaming Till my blood ran dry As you burn this house down So take all the words you said Words of the head and words you forget Cause though I still love you This romance is dead As you burn this house down I Thought I was dreaming Till my blood ran dry Thought I was dreaming Till I saw the look in your eye As you burn this house down
  • Ending type: End Sustain

About Amanda Thorpe

Amanda Thorpe's work has won her an enviable reputation for emotionally forthright performances and organically intimate, effortlessly accessible songcraft. With Promenade, her most recent collection of songs, the English-born, New York-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist raises the stakes again to take on a new set of creative challenges, and emerges with her most inspired and accomplished music yet.

Such musically and emotionally resonant new tunes as "Monica Says," "Bar Tabac," "Waking Up In Brooklyn" and "Goodbye" exemplify Thorpe's moody ...

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