Logs And Thangs - Millie Jackson

Now why are we discussing these home fires here

Let us clearify a few things

And speak of these fires in depth

Cause evidently you are not receiving the true message I am sending out here

Now we do have two kinds of fires going on

I have a fire

And you had a fire

Cause you see

Your fire has just about burned out

It could be that you been flicking your Bic so much elsewhere

Until you done run out of fuel

Now I don’t know this

All I know is

This house is cold

There hasn’t even been any ashes in this fireplace recently

And I am about to add a third fire

An outside fire

Now this fire has not yet started

Because I thought you should know the consequences of getting a fire started

On the outside

Now I am not talking about

Dropping a lil lit match somewhere on a wet day

I am talking 'bout

Burning down a whole damn county

Smokey the Bear would hate me after this

Now only you can prevent this forest fire

You can start by getting the fire started right here

I don’t mean just one of them little smoke signals

Cause your name ain’t Geronimo

Now either you do this

Or there gonna be enough sparks flying around here

That the whole neighborhood gonna think its the 4th of July

Cause I’m declaring my independence

My right for a man to offer me a Tipparillo

Oh yes, I’m gonna be smoking

Now I know you don’t want this to happen

Cause once you get an outside fire started you can’t control it

Every time you think you’ve just about smothered it

A good gust of wind come through and set that mickey-dickey on fire again

And you could end up with

A wildfire

And wildfires do have a tendency to spread

Oh no

Don’t think you can start a fire across town

And its gonna stay over there

If you mess around and get burnt

Its gonna beat you home

Ain’t no need to be telling your old lady nothing 'bout

I can’t do nothing this week baby

I was lifting something down too heavy at the job and I got a strain

No buddy

The strain gonna be on your ass

Cause you done messed around and let these outside fires

Heat your house

And when an outside fire spread all the way to your house

Ooh lord

You wake up one morning

And your house is on fire

Building collapsing down around your ass

And you in trouble

I ain’t bullshitting you in trouble boy

I’m talking about the heat is on

(The heat is on)

Mmmhmmm

Oh yeah

(Oh the heat is on)

And when that much heat get in your house

Niagra falls couldn’t put that mickey-dickey out

And strange things start happening around the house

And then you come home one day

Lo and behold

There’s a different kind of log in the fireplace

A log bigger than yours

A longer log than yours

And it just burns for hours

Even after the log burned down the coals stay lit

Then you know your ass in trouble

Its time for you to gather your twigs and split

Now I wanna tell you something, hear me

This is what is about to happen in our situation

I been checking out

The logs in the neighborhood

Nice logs

In fact, there’s a whole god damn forest out there

And I am ready with my axe

To chop down the first tree I see baby

I want you to know this

So what I suggest you do here

If you wanna keep these home fires burning

Is do like they do

When they go downtown shopping

If you see something you want

And you don’t have the money, or

It might be a little too expensive, or

Whatever the case right now

Now ain’t the time for you to get it

If you really want it

You oughta put it in lay away