Fire Season ft. Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo and the Shrine All-Star Band Lyrics

We made a home and it went up in flames

But our bodies are something the fire did not claim

On that day

We were just making plans to stay

And then our house burned down

While everything changed

Y'all, I am not the same

Got loved ones who made it to an early grave

I got loved ones who shouldn't but they carry the weight

It's nobody's fault, but some want somebody to blame

Usually the mirror is the place that they aim

But I don't want to lose nobody else to shame

Our house burned down, we lost it all in a day

Bare feet in the street, we were all we could take

That was more than enough, just that we made it out safe

Without a house but a village we would find our way

Never felt loved like we did the next day

Sometimes you run and life is all you can take

We're breathing in an era where the air isn't safe

It was COVID, and the smoke had covered the whole state

From tear gas to wildfires the worlds ablaze

Change is so sudden, here nothings the same

Years pass but the trauma remains

Compounded into levels it gets hard to explain

Some days you give thanks for the rain

And work to build a home out the ashes again

We made a home and it went up in flames

But our bodies are something the fire did not claim

On that day

We were just making plans to stay

And then our house burned down

While everything changed

We made a home and it went up in flames

But our bodies are something the fire did not claim

On that day

We were just making plans to stay

And then it all burned down

While everything changed