I smell smoke on the holy ground I feel heat, something's coming down I'm barely awake in this midnight hour Under the spell of a numbing power I can taste flames in the scorching light How I wish I was dreaming, wrong and not right I wish I was wrong, and not right, right, right How can I hesitate? It's getting harder to breathe In the gray smoke hanging, suffocating me The house is on fire The walls are alive in this red-hot blaze Shout to the sleepers through the terminal haze As the sparks fly up and the flames reach higher Call me what you will, but I ain't no liar The house is on fire