Forest Fire

The Dream Academy - Forest Fire

For short lived cattle grazing land

With the whole world in their hands

They're cutting down and burning up the land

Asset stripping the medicine man

& all for one

And every man for himself

The conflict of interest lies

Selling off cheap

Avoid political heat and burn up in a forest fire

And now that there's nothing left

Just a hole above our heads

Letting the sunshine in

That's how the end begins

With a forest fire

The black cloud rising in the sky

Up into the atmosphere

] it's bringing down a different kind of weather

to the one we knew last year

and

though it's taking so long to do something about it

they chip away at it

bit by bit

you won't believe anything that grown up for so long

could be cut down this quick

and now that there's nothing left

just a hole above our heads

letting the sunshine in

that's how the end begins

with a forest fire

in the corner of a foreign land

in the wind that blows the sand

there's the sting of a thousand lies

that burned up in a forest fire

we're burning up

in a clear blue sky

in a funeral pyre

in a big white lie

in a forest fire