The Rebel Black Dot Song o' the Day

Big D and the Kids Table, "(We All Have to) Burn Something" from How It Goes (The Last Angry Man)

Skammentary: "(We All Have to) Burn Something" is similar to Real Can of Yams's "Christmas Should be Lasting All Year Long," in that the title is different from a phrase oft repeated in the lyrics. The refrain in "Christmas Should be Lasting All Year Long" is

"Christmas should last all year long,"

while

"Christmas should be lasting all year long,"

is only sung once, at the very end. In the same fashion, the words so often repeated in "(We All Have to) Burn Something" are

"We all gotta burn something."

The words

"We all have to burn something"

are never actually sung.

"Well, she had a boyfriend, so I'm told,
Played a dumb sport, did the drama show,
Her parents screamed, 'On your knees!'
Trapped to bond every day like never,
I know, I know things should get better,
Ah, nah, not another bad week!
But boy, boyfriend, yeah, he cheated,
Something about her being mistreated,
In her eyes she was only twenty percent there,
And little by little by little,
She lost her interest little by little,
At an age, young age, she had to burn something!

"Aw, we all gotta burn something.
Yeah, we all gotta burn something.
See, we're all, we're all just burning something.
Yeah, we all gotta burn something!…"