Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire lyrics

Kick off your boots, come sit a spell

Listen to me worry, come and listen well

All you better best come and lean in boys

I don't dare to raise my voice

I've been sitting here for the longest time

reading all the warning and all the danger signs

I don't have the gift of prophesy

telling everybody how it's gonna be

Soon come, soon come the day

this tinderbox is gonna blow in your face

I don't have the gift of prophesy

telling everybody how it's gonna be

You go passing wrong for right

and right for wrong

people only stand for that for just so long

It's all gonna catch like a house on fire

spark an evil blaze and burn higher

Well, I don't have the gift of prophesy

telling everybody how it's gonna be

You go passing wrong for right

and right for wrong

people only stand for that for just so long

I don't have the gift of prophesy

telling everybody how it's gonna be

There's a wild fire catching

in the whip of the wind

that could start a conflagration like there has never been

This house is on fire