This house is on fire      Kick off your boots, come and sit a spell   Listen to me worry, come and listen well   All you better best come and lean in boys   'Cause I don't dare to raise my voice      I've been sitting here for the longest time   Reading all the warning and the danger signs   I don't have the gift of the prophecy   Telling everybody how it's gonna be      Soon come, soon come the day   This tinderbox is gonna blow in your face   I don't have the gift of the prophecy   Telling everybody how it's gonna be      You go passing wrong for right and right for wrong   People only stand for that for just so long   It's all gonna catch like a house on fire   Spark an evil blaze and burn higher      Well, I don't have the gift of the prophecy   Telling everybody how it's gonna be   You go passing wrong for right and right for wrong   People only stand for that for just so long      I don't have the gift of the prophecy   Telling everybody how it's gonna be   There's a wild fire catching in the whip of the wind   That could start a conflagration   Like there has never been      This house is on fire