There is fire on the mountain And nobody seems to be on the run Oh, there is fire on the mountain top And no one is running I wake up in the morning Tell you what I see on my TV screen I see the blood of an innocent child And everybody's watching Now I'm looking out my window And what do I see I see an army of a soldier man Matching across the street, yeah Hey, Mr. Soldier man Tomorrow is the day you go to war But you are fighting for another man's cause And you don't even know him What did he say to make you so blind? To you conscience and reason Could it be love for your country Or for the gun you use in killing? So there is fire on the mountain And nobody seems to be on the run Oh, there is fire on the mountain top And no one is a runnin' Hey, Mr. Lover man Can I get a chance to talk to you? 'Cause you are fooling with a dead man's corpse And you don't know what you do So you say you have a lover And you love her like no other So you buy her a diamond that someone has died on Don't you think there something wrong with this? Tell me who's responsible For what we teach our children Is it the Internet or the stars on television? Why? Oh why? Why? Oh, Why? Oh So little Lucy turns sixteen And like the movie she's been seeing She has a lover in her daddy She can't tell nobody till she makes the evening news For there is fire on the mountain And there is nobody seems to be on the run Oh, there is fire on the mountain top And no one is a runnin', oh yes One day the river will over flow And there'll be no where for us to go And we will run, run Wishing we had put out the fire, oh For there is fire on the mountain, yeah, yeah And there ain't nobody seems to be on the run Oh, there is fire on the mountain top And no one is a runnin', so, yeah, yeah, yeah There is fire on the mountain Nobody seems to be on the run Fire on the mountain top No one is a runnin' Fire on the mountain Nobody seems to be on the run Fire on the mountain
