When The Fires Come

When the hills are aglow with the light at the end of the day
 And we usher our children into the shade
 In the warm summer silence suspended aloft in the air
 There a cricket sings alone
 Ancient songs of home
 Where now
 Deep in the forest
 That no-one dares to see or know
 A young spark smoulders
 All around the world they weep now they know it's true
 (True true true)
 The sun's returned to send us home to earth
 Everybody takes their time making work to do
 (Do do do)
 But no-one will be left here to remember us
 When the fires come
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 As a pillar of smoke reaches over to strangle the land
 We desert all we have as fast as we can
 For the valleys
 Then I see when I look right behind me
 At the seam of the rocks and the trees it roars
 It's angry
 All around the world they weep now they know it's true
 The sun's returned to send us home to earth
 Everybody takes their time making work to do
 But no-one will be left here to remember us
 When the
 All around the world they weep now they know it's true
 (True true true)
 The sun's returned to send us home to earth
 Everybody takes their time making work to do
 (Do do do)
 But no-one will be left here to remember us
 When the fires come
 When the fires come
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 When the fires come