Elton John - Burn Down The Mission lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album tumbleweed connection<br><br>You tell me there's an angel in your tree<br>Did he say he'd come to call on me<br>For things are getting desperate in our home<br>Living in the parish of the restless folks I know<br><br>Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside<br>Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide<br>Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps<br>It's time we put the flame torch to their keep<br><br>Burn down the mission<br>If we're gonna stay alive<br>Watch the black smoke fly to heaven<br>See the red flame light the sky<br><br>Burn down the mission<br>Burn it down to stay alive<br>It's our only chance of living<br>Take all you need to live inside<br><br>Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today<br>My wife cried when they came to take me away<br>But what more could I do just to keep her warm<br>Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls