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When the wind picked up the fire spread
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And the grapevines se-emed left for de-ad.
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And the northern sky looked like the end of days,
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The end of days.
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The wake up call to a rented room
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Sounded like an a-la-rm of impending do-o-m.
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To warn us it's only a matter of time.
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Before we all burrrrn
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Before we all burrrrn
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Before we all burrrrrrrrrn
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Before we all burrrrn
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We bought some wine and some papercups
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Near your daughter's schoo-l when we picked her u-u-p
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And drove to a cemetery on a hill
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On a hill.
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We watched the plumes paint the sky gray
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As she laughed and da-nced through the field of gr-a-ves
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There I knew it would be all right
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That everything would be all riiiiight,
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Would be all riiiiiight
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Would be all riiiiiight
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Would be all riiiiiight
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And the news re-po-rts on the ra-d-i-o
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Said it was getting worse
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As the ocean air fanned the flames.
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But I couldn't thi-nk of an-y-whe-re I would have rather been
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To watch it all burn away.
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To burn a-wayyyyyyyyyy.
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Oooooooooooo
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Ooooooooooooo (x2)
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Oooooooooooo
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Ooooooooooooo
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The firemen worked in double shifts,
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With prayers for rain on their lips
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And they knew it was only a matter of time.
