Our House Is on Fire

Put out the fire
Put out the fire
Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

We love you, we hear you
We commit to change our ways
Not later, but sooner
Right now, for your future

Youth can’t wait - Put out the fire
Women can’t wait - Put out the fire
Planet can’t wait - Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

For our children - Put out the fire
And their children - Put out the fire
And their children - Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

For songbirds, for clean air
For the oceans and the bays
Not later, but sooner
Right now, for our future

Melting glaciers - Put out the fire
Rising seas - Put out the fire
Bleaching coral - Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

Shrinking shorelines - Put out the fire
Sinking islands - Put out the fire
Growing drylands - Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

Let bees live, let trees grow
Let the snow fall where it may
Not later, but sooner
Right now, for the future

We are here to - Put out the fire
This is how we - Put out the fire
Times is now we - Put out the fire
Our house is on fire

words & music by Sandy O & Pat Humphries (c) 2019. All rights reserved. Used by permisson.

Written in part for Greta Thunberg. Many of these words are taken from her speeches and writings.