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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