The World Is On Fire - Ed Harcourt

There’s an empty playground

With a bird on the swing

Has an eye for the departed

She loves the fallen king

The eyes that shine from the bedding

The neck that holds their head high

I think I’m spinning out of my heart

It’s such a fitting way to die

So much lives in the winter

It’s not as brutal as man

The hole keeps getting deeper

The ropes are easier to find

Well you don’t have to say you’re sorry

'Cause we can never turn back

No time to say farewell

Before we bid too much blood

And as the world is on fire

I hear songs with no words

Well in the grand scheme of things

It’s just a dot in the universe

And as the world is on fire

I am deeply immersed

And in the grand scheme of things

It’s just a dot in the universe

We fell asleep under the ice

They took the past and stayed awake

You’ll find the truth in the past

And be burned at the stake

Gagged and bound by the prophets

And dragged kicking through the streets

The point in to the future

Now we truly are free

And as the world is on fire

I hear songs with no words

Well in the grand scheme of things

It’s just a dot in the universe

And as the world is on fire

I am deeply immersed

In the grand scheme of things

It’s just a dot in the universe

It’s just a dot in the universe