The House is on Fire

from Exiles by David Benjamin Blower

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O LORD! The house is on fire!
The taps ain’t working and the river’s gone dry
O LORD, their burning it down
Sacred walls are hitting the ground

O my, o my! Looks like we finally got our time
Zedekiah was wrong and Jeremih was right, but we were all kidding round through the night
O me, o me! I didn't think He'd seriously
Bring these savages to these streets and burn His own house like a dead old tree.

O LORD! The house is on fire!
The taps ain’t working and the river’s gone dry
O LORD, their burning it down
Sacred walls are hitting the ground

O my LORD! Won't you come here quick and do a miracle or something?
Surely you can't just stand there and watch while they burn your house to smoke and dust
O LORD please! Won't you make it rain or make them disapear?
Part the ocean and bring it over here. We thought you were kidding us all these years.

O LORD! The house is on fire!
The taps ain’t working and the river’s gone dry
O LORD, their burning it down
Sacred walls are hitting the ground

I know I've fallen and I haven't been hanging round here at all
When everyrthing was fine I was standing far off, now its on fire I've got my head in the dust
I know it says that you don't come here with empty hands
But the river's gone dry and for all my sins I guess this really is where it ends

O LORD! The house is on fire!
The taps ain’t working and the river’s gone dry
O LORD, their burning it down
Sacred walls are hitting the ground

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from Exiles, released October 22, 2012

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David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK

David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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