Building On Fire Chords
Building On Fire by Talking Heads is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, F and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D G D G
when my love stands next to your love,
D G D G
I can't compare love when it's not love.
D G D G
It's not love; It's not love
D G D G
Which is my face, which is a building,
(the chords start here)
D G
which is on fire
D G
on fire.
so the whole song is just D for one measure and G for the next. It
changes at the instrumental with the horns before "I got two loves"
|: F C C G :|
Which is on fire
then it instantly goes back to D and G until the final chord which is a
D. it sounds cool if, after the instrumental you strum the D chord with
long strums while you strum the G chord withfour staccato quarter note
hits.