This House Is On Fire Lyrics - Natalie Merchant

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