If the House Burns Down Tonight
Switchfoot

Produced By John Fields & Switchfoot



Ashes from the flames

The truth is what remains

The truth is what you save

From the fire

And you fight for what you love

Don't matter if it hurts

You find out what it's worth

And you let the rest burn


The sunset burns like gasoline

Touch me and make sure that I'm not dreaming

I see her face and my heart skips beats

But I still get the feeling that we're half asleep and


There's a spark in the corner of my baby's eye

Like a distant star that won't burn quiet

And I might not know what I want from this life

But I know I want more than the starting line


So give me the fire


I can hear the motor running down the interstate

And all the distractions fade away

And if the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need with you by my side

I see the smoke piling up in the rear view mirror

Yeah but I ain't ever seen it any clearer

If the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need when I got you by my side

And let the rest burn

And let the rest burn

And let the rest burn


I've given too much of my heart away

My soul’s holding on like a house divided

Like a match it burns down like a masquerade

And I had to let it go when the fire ignited


One heart, two hands, your life is all you hold

To hold, hold tight and let the bitter go

Yeah let it go, and give me the fire



The smoke tries choking the pacific sun

We rocket down the road like we're shot out of guns

And if the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need with you by my side

Holding you and the wheel and it occurs to me

We're driving down the edge of eternity

If the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need when I got you by my side

And let the rest burn

And let the rest burn


Put your hand in mine and

Put your heart in driving

We got everything we need yeah

We got everything we need yeah

Left it all behind us

What we need will find us


We got everything we need yeah

We got everything we need yeah


Can you hear that motor running

Can you hear that motor running

There ain’t no stopping us now

There ain’t no slowing us down


Can you hear that motor running

Can you hear that motor run, run, run


And all those lies that mattered most to me

Were draining me dry making a ghost of me

And if the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need, everything I need

There’s a fire coming that we all will go through

You possess your possessions or they possess you

And if the house burns down tonight

I got everything I need when I got you by my side


And let the rest burn


Ashes from the flames, the truth is what remains


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  24   4:12   A New Way To Be Human   Adding To The Noise   Afterlife   Afterlife (Neon Feather Remix)   Against The Voices   All or Nothing at All   Always   Always Something   Amateur Lovers   American Dream   Ammunition   Amy's Song   Awakening   Awakening [DVD]   Ba55   Back To The Beginning   Back To The Beginning Again   Beautiful Let Down   Beautiful Letdown   Ben Hur   Betrayal   Blinding Light   Blinding Light (Adam Young of Owl City Remix)   Blues   Bomb   Bull in a China Shop   Bullet Soul   Burn Out Bright   C'mon C'mon   C'mon, C'mon   Chem 6A   Circles   Company Car   Concrete Girl   Connect With The Spine   Crazy In Love   Daisy   Dancin' In The Monlight   Dare You To Move   Dark Horses   Dark Horses (Demo Version)   Darkest Horses (JT Daly of Paper Route Remix)   Daylight To Break   Daylight to Break   Dirty Second Hands   Don't Be There   Easier Than Love   Edge of My Seat   Enough To Let Me Go   Erosion   Evergreen   Fading West   Faust, Midas, And Myself   Float   Free   God Only Knows (Cover of Beach Boys)   Golden   Gone   Good Night Punk   Goodnight Punk   Gravity   Happy Is A Yuppie Word   Happy is a Yuppy Word   Head Over Heels (In This Life)   Healer of Souls   Hello Hurricane   Holy Water   Home   Hope is the Anthem   I Dare You to Move   I Turn Everything Over   I Won't Let You Go   Incomplete   Innocence Again   Innocent Again   Learning to Breath   Learning To Breathe   Let It Out   Let That Be Enough   Let Your Love Be Strong   Liberty   Life And Love And Why   Light and Heavy   Live It Well   Living Is Simple   Lonely Nation   Looking for America   Lord, Save Me From Myself   Love Alone Is Worth The Fight   Love Is The Movement   Meant To Live   Meant To Live (Acoustic)   Mess Of Me   Might Have Ben Hur   Monday Comes Around   More Than Fine   My Place in the Sunlight   Needle & Haystack Life   Needle And Haystack Life   New Way To Be Human   Ode To Chin   Oh! Gravity   Oh! Gravity.   Oh! Gravity.   Old Borego   On Fire   Only Hope   Out of Control   Overthrow   Playing For Keeps   Politicians   Poparazzi   Rebuild   Red Eyes   Redemption   Restless   Revenge   Rise Above It   Saltwater Heart   Say It Like You Mean It   Selling The News   Selling The News (Photek Remix)   Setting Sun   Shadow Proves The Sunshine   Shake This Feeling   She Says (The Black Eyed Blues)   Sing It Out   Skin And Bones   Slipping Away   Slow Down My Heartbeat   Something More   Something More (Augustine's Confession)   Sooner Or Later   Sooner or Later (Soren's Song)   Sound   Souvenirs   Spirit   Stars   Stars (Edit)   Stars [DVD]   Stitches   Switchfoot - Dare You To Move   The Beautiful Letdown   The Blinding Light   The Blues   The Day That I Found God   The Economy Of Mercy   The Edge Of My Seat   The Edge Of The Earth   The Fatal Wound   The Loser   The Original   The Original (J. T. Daly of Paper Route Remix)   The Setting Sun   The Setting Sun [DVD]   The Shadow Proves The Sunshine   The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)   The Sound In My Mouth   The War Inside   The War Inside (DnJ Remix)   The Wars Inside   The World You Want   There, There (Radiohead cover)   This Is Home   This Is Your Life   Thrive   Throwing Chairs   Twenty-Four   Under The Floor   Underwater   Vice Verses   Vice Verses (Darren King Remix)   War In My Blood   We Are Bound   We Are One Tonight   What It Costs   When Was the Last Time   When We Come Alive   Where I Belong   Where the Light Shines Through   Who We Are   Yesterdays   Yet   You   You Already Take Me There   Your Love Is A Song   Your My Angel

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