Fire Water Burn - Outside References

Outside References

"Fire Water Burn" makes a variety of references to figures from popular culture. These include the musicians Barry White, Frank Black, Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, Lawrence Welk, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, the fictional characters Han Solo and Webster, the television show Kojak, the author Mark Twain and U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

Additionally, the song makes a modified quote from the Pixies song "Monkey Gone to Heaven", with the lyrics, "if man is five and the devil is six then that must make me seven/ this honky's gone to heaven" rather than "so if man is five/ then the devil is six/ then god is seven/ this monkey's gone to heaven". The song is also musically similar to the latter half of the Pixies song "The Happening".

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