Kero Kero Bonito - When the Fires Come lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] 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