The Only House That's Not on Fire (Yet)

The Only House That's Not on Fire (Yet)

Artist:

Lemon Demon

Album:

View-Monster

Recorded:

2006

Released:

14 November 2006

Length:

4:55

Download:

MP3

Chords:

Available

BPM:

145

Songs on View-Monster

1. Kaleidoskull
2. Untitled [view-monster]
3. Amnesia Was Her Name
4. Untitled [hippocampus]
5. The Man in Stripes and Glasses
6. Untitled [spooky sounds vol 6]
7. Marketland
8. Untitled [x-ray glasses]
9. Gadzooks
10. Untitled [prelude to a knife fight]
11. Knife Fight
12. Untitled [autofocus]
13. The Only House That’s Not on Fire (Yet)
14. Untitled [combs]
15. The Ocean
16. Untitled [wet hair]
17. The Afternoon
18. Untitled [afterafternoon]
19. Spring Heeled Jack
20. Untitled [alternate history]
21. Being a Rock Star
22. Untitled [like a balloon]
23. Ask For Nothing
24. Untitled [disconnect]
25. The Satirist’s Love Song
26. Untitled [therapy]
27. The Machine
28. Untitled [between the frames]
29. Bill Watterson
30. Untitled [sleeping]
31. Something Glowing
32. Untitled [finale]

Bonus tracks

1. 320x200
2. Ben Bernanke
3. Drinky-Bird
4. Everyday French
5. Gadzooks (Original version)
6. Hip Hop Cherry Pop
7. Modify
8. Nightmare Fuel
9. Strangelet
10. Sundial
11. Super Hey Ya (OutKast Remix)
12. Today’s Secret Word
13. Treasure Map
14. The Wiggles Hate Each Other in Real Life
15. You Got a Toothache

Hidden track

1. creepy

Lyrics

I feel knotted up today,
But in a most exquisite way
Like neckties or like macramé,
Bowlines and zeppelin bends.

If you were a theremin,
I wouldn’t know where to begin;
My hands would stay here on my chin
With a hum that never ends.

This suit doesn’t fit me,
I made it myself, counterfeitly,
With buttons of blue
Killing me with déjà vu.
It’s a gift for you.

When I escape at last,

When enough time has passed.

But something keeps me as a pet:

The only house that’s not on fire yet.

I made it when I was an architect.

This is just the side effect.

I feel strangely regular,
But honestly, I prefer it to
The usual bizarre.
Damn that oxymoron.

If you were a piece of dust,
I’d shine a light through the busted window
And I’d learn to trust
In the updraft that you’re on.

Click! Click! Auto-focus!
The film’s in the can like hocus-pocus.
A picture of you
Killing me with déjà vu.

Don’t know what I’ll do when I escape at last,

When the end of time has passed.

But something keeps me as a pet:

The only house that’s not on fire yet.

I made it when I was an architect.

This is just the side effect.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

The punch line is that there is no punch line.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

The punch line is that there is no punch line.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

The punch line is: there is no punch line.

Oh! I just thought of how to change all the hate
Into love with the old switcheroo
Dancing in my déjà vu.
You’ll be dancing, too.

When I escape at last,

When the future is the past.

But something keeps me as a pet:

The only house that’s not on fire yet.

The only house that’s not on fire yet.

The only house that’s not on fire yet.

The only house that’s not on fire (yet).

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Sheet Music: http://zas.illemonati.com/theonlyhousethatsnotonfireyet.pdf

Trivia

• The first three seconds of this song are very similar to the background music in The Song You Hear When You Die and the intro to the Trapezoid-era song AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!.
• The “hum that never ends” is a reference to Neverending Hum.

Song Themes

Abstract Lyrics, Death, Fire, Hate, Love, Music, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, and Contradictory Statements, Self-Reference

See also

• Wikipedia article on theremins.