Burning Down The House Stockholm Students (YouTube, 2019)
Ms. Greta Thunberg was on fire this year, with her castigation of world leaders for sitting on their butts during the climate emergency. Here, at one of her Friday School Strikes for the Climate, the student group broke out into a chant based on Talking Heads' famous anthem, using alternate lyrics like
Watch out!
The planet's boiling over.
Hot baby!
Our clock is running out.
We are burning on your watch,
Burning up the Earth!
Hold tight!
It's time for legislation.
Don't wait!
Keep us from burning carbon!
And subsidize those solar cells
Powering the house!
L.A.'s burning, Venice sinks,
Greenland's glaciers melting down.
And still you do nothing!
Snowpack's missing, cornfields flood,
Methane from the permafrost,
And still you do nothing!
etc.