This House Is On Fire Lyrics

This house is on fire

Kick off your boots, come and sit a spell
Listen to me worry, come and listen well
All you better best come and lean in boys
'Cause I don't dare to raise my voice

I've been sitting here for the longest time
Reading all the warning and the danger signs
I don't have the gift of the prophecy
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 the prophecy
Telling everybody how it's gonna be

You go pa*sing 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 the prophecy
Telling everybody how it's gonna be
You go pa*sing wrong for right and right for wrong
People only stand for that for just so long

I don't have the gift of the prophecy
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

Natalie Merchant - Trilogy

Dec 2005

1. This House Is On Fire
2. Henry Darger
3. Worst Thing
4. Just Can't Lst
5. Letter