Set Yourself on Fire Lyrics

(half time, repeat four times)
In a village in the hills
House buried to the window sills in snow
In a prison yard at night
An Alsatian barking for the stars to go
In the attic of a house
In the slats of light which creep across the room
In a forest grove at dawn
Where the animals sleep hidden in the gloom
horus
On the 97th floor overlooking Tokyo
In Camden road in a second floor flat with Dilworth down below
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
In a cancer ward where the patients sit
Waiting patiently to die
In an aeroplane high above the place
You finally left behind
In a cage where only one thing could be free
And it's not you and I
In a cage where only one thing could be free
And it's not you and I
horus
In every single place that has ever ever been
Hiroshima, Los Angeles and each town in between
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
(half time again, repeat four times again then straight into the verse)
One thing
In the darkest part of you that you have ever seen
In the smile of the child staring at the TV screen
In the diary of a priest, in the sheets that lie upon his bed
Out there amongst the waves and inside your lover's head
horus
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
There is only
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one thing
(tempo slows down)
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
10 years on the coast figuring out the weather
Another decade getting high
until you're free
There's nothing after that but you and I
Nothing after that buy you and me
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever