[Intro] E  A  E 

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Remember days before the fire, before the flood
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When houses were filled with laughter and love
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The wind it howls like demon dogs sent from above
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Birds take to the sky like they know what's to come

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Oh, you can't run faster than fire, faster than water
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Oh, you better run for your lives, grab your sons and your... daughters
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Oh, well the fire line, I don't think we'll hold you
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Oh, mother nature's a b**ch, I don't think she warned you
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But she is gonna show you, hey!

( E  A  E ) 

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The flames ignite, spreading hell across the earth
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Our lives are engulfed, no regard for their worth
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Homes and hills and broken wills are blackened by the burn
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Death to the dream, there's nowhere to turn

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Oh, you can't run faster than fire, faster than water
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Oh, you better run for your lives, grab your sons and your... daughters
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Oh, well the fire line, I don't think we'll hold you
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Oh, mother nature's a b**ch, I don't think she warned you
    A            G#    A 
But she is gonna show you, hey!

( E  A  E )

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It's a funeral pyre, bleeding hearts ablaze
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Hoping help will come, they say it's on its way
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But the fires, they rage and rise and you can't be saved
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All the work we've done, oh, the dream it dies today

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Oh, you can't run faster than fire, faster than water
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Oh, you better run for your lives, grab your sons and your... daughters
    A                         E             G#    A 
Oh, well the fire line, I don't think we'll hold you
    A                  E                       G#    A 
Oh, mother nature's a b**ch, I don't think she warned you
    A            G#    A 
But she is gonna show you, hey!

( E  A  E )

[Outro]

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Remember days before the fire, before the flood