Burned By The Fire We Make Lyrics - Adrian Belew

And when Man gained dominion 

over land and the oceans 

he began to harm the planet 

with his asphalt and his toxins 

and to lay the forest bare 

and to poison even the air 

and he killed every beast 

and taught the seas how to bleed 

Burned by the fire we make, 

what a shame 

Then the winds gave in 

and the rain knew no season 

and the sun came to beat 

on a land of sand and diseases 

and when God looked down 

on the earth and saw it was broken 

then the tears of God fell down 

through a hole in the ozone 

Burned by the fire we make 

what a shame 

This is the nature of the human race 

to kill off anything that gets in our way 

poor Mother Earth we disfigured her face 

Man is the maker of his own disgrace 

Burned by the fire we make 

what a shame