Burning Pile – English Lyrics

• By: Mother Mother
• Album: Inside

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the raw, quirky energy of "Burning Pile." This Indie Rock track offers a rich vocabulary for discussing feelings of catharsis, anxiety, and finding a dark humor in your troubles. Its distinct lyrical style, with lines like "All my troubles on a burning pile," will teach you to express complex, raw emotions in a poetic and memorable way, making it a powerful song to explore new English vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.

[English]

All my style

all my grace

All I tried to save my face

All my guts, try to spill

All my holes, try to fill

All my money been a long time spent

On my drugs, on my rent

On my saving philosophy

It goes, one in the bank, and the rest for me

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

My momma, lonely maid

Got her buns in the oven, and she never got laid

My papa, renaissance man,

Sailed away and he never came back again

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh all your woe begones be gone

I said all your troubles, you don't need a thing

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the world again

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I'll take my turn

To burn burn and burn, and burn and burn

burn burn burn …

Key Grammar Structures

• All my style, all my grace

  ➔ Parallel structure with 'all'

  ➔ The phrase uses repeated 'all' to emphasize multiple elements in a list, creating a rhythmic and poetic effect.

• All I tried to save my face

  ➔ Subjective infinitive

  ➔ The infinitive phrase 'to save my face' acts as the subject of the sentence, showing the action in a general sense.

• If I, catch fire then I change my aim

  ➔ Conditional sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ The sentence expresses a possible condition ('If I catch fire') and its probable result ('then I change my aim').

• Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

  ➔ Phrasal verb ('throw at')

  ➔ The phrasal verb 'throw at' is used to indicate directing something toward a target, here metaphorically.

• Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

  ➔ Interjection for emphasis

  ➔ The repeated 'oh' serves as an interjection to add emotional emphasis and rhythm to the lyrics.

• All your woe begones be gone

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The imperative mood ('be gone') is used to give a direct command or instruction.

• To burn, burn and burn, and burn and burn

  ➔ Repetition for emphasis

  ➔ The repeated verb 'burn' emphasizes the intensity and continuity of the action.