All across my lovely state
I feel the fires burning
The tinder’s dry and eager
The wind is mad and turning
What was green and reaching high
Is on the ground and grey
The air itself is witness
From a hundred miles away
The fire knows no battle lines
No boundaries or borders
It leaves towns that it passes through
Like wreckage from marauders
Chaos stalks the countryside
And Fire is his daughter
Reveling in damage done
By walls of flame or water
And though disasters wrought by both
Seem equally as dire
People rush to help with flood
But run like hell from fire
We choose to raise our buildings
Well along on nature’s path
Knowing in the wild
We’re exposed to nature’s wrath
The climate may be changing
Quite so or maybe not
I only know for certain that
Today it’s very hot
This global Armageddon is our fault
Some people shout
Before we get to placing blame
Let’s put the fire out
All across the country
I sense a growing fire
And while we rail and wrangle
The flames are growing higher
Let’s fight the common challenges
Where circumstances place us
And try to work together
To meet the beasts that face us
