Why Must a Building Burn
Maxïmo Park * Track #8 On Nature Always Wins
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Album Nature Always Wins
- #1Partly of My Making
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- #2Versions of You
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- #3
Baby, SleepMaxïmo Park
- #4Placeholder
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- #5All of Me
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- #6Ardour
Maxïmo Park & Pauline Murray
- #7Meeting Up
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- #8Why Must a Building Burn
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- #9
I Don’t Know What I’m DoingMaxïmo Park
- #10The Acid Remark
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- #11Feelings I’m Supposed to Feel
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- #12
Child of the FlatlandsMaxïmo Park
Why Must a Building Burn by Maxïmo Park
Performed by
Maxïmo ParkProduced by
Ben H. Allen IIIWrited by
Paul Smith & Duncan Lloyd & Tom English & Paul RaffertyAbout
Frontman Paul Smith told NME that this song was inspired by the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and the Bataclan attack in 2015.
It’s a strange song because it’s a hybrid of two things that I’d never really have thought to put in a song – but there’s a confluence between the two that just made it feel...
Why Must a Building Burn Lyrics
Do you need a flag
To know who you are?
Did you get intentionally left behind?
There's a curve in the road
That I intimately know
And, you know, I got caught on that curve before
Why must a building burn
Before a lesson is learned?
An unoriginal thought
I've often fallen short
If I could bottle the tonic of your laughter I would
A girl running at night
Clutching a rectangle of light
Still fills her lungs with the dust of a life
Why must a building burn
Before the powerful learn?
I saw a picture (I saw a picture)
Beamed right through me (Beamed right through me)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face
A family photo (A family photo)
One of many (One of many)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face
I was hoping for a message to tell me you were here
I was waiting for a message to tell me you were here
I was hoping for a message to tell me you were here
I saw a picture (I saw a picture)
On my telly (On my telly)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face
It was you
It was you
It was you all along
Why Must a Building Burn Q&A
Who wrote Why Must a Building Burn's ?
Why Must a Building Burn was written by Paul Smith & Duncan Lloyd & Tom English & Paul Rafferty.
Who produced Why Must a Building Burn's ?
Why Must a Building Burn was produced by Ben H. Allen III.
What did Maxïmo Park say about "Why Must a Building Burn"?
It’s about empathy, as a lot of our music is. One of our old merchandise sellers, Nick, was involved in the Bataclan tragedy and was killed. I saw his photograph on the news in our country, and I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. These are human people, they’re not just statistics and names...