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Artist: City Boy
Canonical path: /city-boy/the-day-the-earth-caught-fire
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The Day The Earth Caught Fire
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The Day The Earth Caught Fire
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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
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