Fire on the Mountain

There is fire on the mountain

And nobody seems to be on the run

Oh, there is fire on a mountaintop

And no one is a' runnin'

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 watchin'

Now I'm lookin' out my window

And what do I see?

I see an army of soldier men

Marchin' across the street, yeah

Hey, Mister Soldier Man

Tomorrow is the day you go to war

But you are fightin' for another man's guns

And you don't even know him

What did he say to make you so blind

To your conscience and reason?

Could it be love for your country

Or for the gun you use and kill them?

So

There is fire on the mountain

And nobody seems to be on the run

Oh, there is fire on the mountaintop

And no one is a' runnin'

Hey, Mister Lover Man

Can I get a chance to talk to you?

'Cause you are foolin' with a dead man's corpse

And you don't know what you do

So you tell 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 somethin' wrong with this?

Tell me

Who's responsible for what we teach our children?

Is it the internet or stars on television?

Why, oh, why?

Why, oh, why?

Oh

Oh, so little Lucy turn sixteen

And like the movies she's been seein'

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 ain't nobody (Nobody seems to be on the run)

Oh there is fire on the mountaintop

And no one is a' runnin'

Oh, yes

One day, the river will overflow

And there will be nowhere for us to go

And we will run, run

Wishin' we had put out the fire

Oh, no

For there is fire on the mountain

Yeah, yeah

And there ain't nobody (Nobody seems to be on the run)

Oh, there is fire on the mountaintop

And nobody is a' runnin'

So, yeah, yeah, yeah

There is fire on the mountain (Fire in Africa)

Body seems to be on the run (Oh, fire everywhere in the city, yeah)

Fire on the mountaintop

No one is a' runnin'

Fire, fire, fire, yeah

Nobody's runnin'