When the Fires Come - Kero Kero Bonito

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

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

When the fires come