Burning flame A high-octane, Telecaster-driven country rocker with a driving backbeat and a dusty, road-worn grit. Verse 1 [G] Static on the Zenith in a double-wide hall [C] Watching blurry icons bounce off the wall [G] That flannel shirt was tied around a waist so tight [D] We were chasing down the ghosts in the neon light [G] A static-filled signal from a satellite beam [C] Painting technicolor shades on a small-town dream [G] The static crackled loud like a splintering pine [D] We were drawing up the maps on a broken line [Chorus] [G] We were a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Trading all the secrets that the suburbs know [Em] Faster than the signal on an MTV screen [D] We were wilder than the wildest thing we’d ever seen [G] Yeah, a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Moving like the rhythm that the radio owed [Em] Running through the static ‘til the sky turned gray [D] Burning through the night ‘til the break of day [Verse 2] [G] Leather boots kicking up the gravel and dust [C] Fighting off the silence and the growing rust [G] A CD stack sliding on the passenger floor [D] Kicking down the frame of the dead-bolt door [G] We saw the world through a glass-tube haze [C] Lost in the static of those Saturday days [G] The world was a secret that we couldn’t keep [D] Waking up the ghosts while the neighbors were asleep [Chorus] [G] We were a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Trading all the secrets that the suburbs know [Em] Faster than the signal on an MTV screen [D] We were wilder than the wildest thing we’d ever seen [G] Yeah, a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Moving like the rhythm that the radio owed [Em] Running through the static ‘til the sky turned gray [D] Burning through the night ‘til the break of day [Bridge] [Am] Now the tubes have faded and the screen’s gone black [C] There ain’t no rhythm that can call it back [Em] Just the echo of a song that we used to know [D] Burning like a fever in the afterglow [Chorus] [G] We were a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Trading all the secrets that the suburbs know [Em] Faster than the signal on an MTV screen [D] We were wilder than the wildest thing we’d ever seen [G] Yeah, a burning flame in the cathode glow [C] Moving like the rhythm that the radio owed [Em] Running through the static ‘til the sky turned gray [D] Burning through the night ‘til the break of day [Outro] [G] Still a burning flame [C] Yeah, just a burning flame [G] Turning up the static one more time [D] [G] Burning through the night. Key: G Major
