City Boy The Day The Earth Caught Fire Lyrics

The Day The Earth Caught Fire Lyrics

The day the Earth caught fire 



We stood outside the world was
laughing 



And in the city square 



They cast umbrellas
to the sky 



The sun above my head was burning greedy red 



The horns began to blow "Three Cheers for jericho"





The
first evacuee 



I was headed for the sea, I saw them 



The roadside refugees 



The boys with bloody knees who waved 



Abandoned cars that lay too tired to drive away 



"A World
in Flames Today" was all the papers 



had to say





Run for your life (The Earth's caught fire) 



Run for your life
(The Earth's caught fire) 



Run, run, run 



Run for
your life (The Earth's on fire) 



Run for your life (The Earth's on
fire) 



Run, run, run





The streetcar prophet
said, 



"You thought that God was dead-I warned you 



The sinners and the saved 



They fell down to their knees and
prayed 



Believers held their breath and stoned a witch to death




The leaders and the led said "Blow the bloody 



Reds
away!"





Run for your life (The Earth's caught fire) 



Run for your life (The Earth's caught fire) 



Run, run,
run 



Run for your life (The Earth's on fire) 



Run for
your life (The Earth's on fire) 



Run. run, run