Story Behind The Song
I was feeling exactly this way when I wrote this song. I had just been to a concert and returned home and just felt it is all too hard.
Song Description
A woman explaining how she has lost her get up and go. She lays in bed while the phone rings and lets the answer machine pick it up and she just listens. She is burnt out by the rat race.
| Song Length |
4:14 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, New Age - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Cool |
Subject |
Frustration |
| Similar Artists |
Sade |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Everythings too much trouble to me I've got so many things to do, there's nothin' I get through I can't sleep at night too uptight, I don't think my doctor can help me
Chorus
It's a burnout, nothin' left inside
It's a burnout, I need a place to hide
from this ratrace, I need a place to go
and recharge this burntout soul.
caught up in everything, why can't I see
where life is heading and what's happening to me I've got
too many people pulling me too and fro'
don't know where I can turn or which way to go and it's ......
Chorus
Burnout ....Burnout.........Burnout......Burnout
Dont tell me you think you can help me
you seemed to help me get this way
if i had to do it all over
i'd do it all a different way yeh!
Chorus
Burnout can't get up what am I gonna do
Time keeps moving on...........another days gone
people calling on the phone it's a machine nobodies at home
I lay awake in bed listening
Chorus
Chorus
Freaked out scream and shout dog barking cut it out
weighed down it's heavy load 20 odd years and I'm feeling old
dreaming all day long wake me up to a happy song
frustrated no big deal do you get the drift of how i feel