Lyric discussion by PaliSteve 

“Watch out you might get what you're after. Cool babes strange but not a stranger.”

  • Radioactive/dead babies.

“I'm an ordinary guy. Burning down the house.”

  • Whose responsible? All of us.

“Hold tight wait till the party's over. Hold tight we're in for nasty weather. There has got to be a way. Burning down the house.”

  • Nuclear blast.

“Here's your ticket pack your bag:time for jumpin' overboard. The transportation is here.”

  • A-bombs.

“Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are. Fightin' fire woth fire.”

  • Mutually assured destruction.

“All wet hey you might need a raincoat.”

  • Fallout. (Black rain?)

“Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight.”

  • Vaporized people.

“Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees. Burning down the house.

It was once upon a place sometimes i listen to myself. Gonna come in first place.”

  • Arms race.

“People on their way to work baby what did you expect. Gonna burst into flame.”

  • More vaporized people (serves them right for not doing anything but making money).

“My house S'out of the ordinary. That's might don't want to hurt nobody.”

  • Everyone, good and bad, gonna burn.

“Some things sure can sweep me off my feet.”

  • Nuclear blast.

“Burning down the house.”

  • (You get the drift.)

“No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet.”

  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nevada, Polynesia, India, Pakistan, France, Polynesian Islands, etc.

“Everything's stuck together.”

  • Little fission to loosen the atoms.

“I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set.”

  • Read some books dumbasses!

“Fighting fire with fire.”

  • Song to fight the dumbing down effect of the tv tube.
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