Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Motherland

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 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 the prophecy

 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 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!