The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
It's twenty twenty already
And there are more of us
And we want more and more
Who doesn't honor the small isn't worthy of the big
And what you don't know won't hurt you
Are my sins forgiven then?
We'll tremble, the earth will bleed
And whoever doesn't pay has to settle his debts
I want a career, a garden, a family
I want to taste truly clean air
But the rich escape, they book a flight
And it can be different, I know it can
With faith and a will and a law and a plan
I want a future, and you want it too
Or you stay blind, 'cause where there's fire, there's smoke
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
And you shut your eyes to it
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
But I'm bigger than that
We're dying so the urgency's higher than that
It's sh*tty but let's hope for that
That we'll make it in fits and starts and that
We'll talk, especially with each other
'Cause the crisis is here and The Hague is still there
And that we do something, really do, you hear
'Cause you've got cash for that
And at Sinterklaas I'll put out my shoe for that
And not for myself but for all of us
I want to see in fifty shades of green
I want to think and dare and do
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
And I'm choking in the time, time ticking
Time just keeps on ticking
And you shut your eyes to it
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
And you shut your eyes to it
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
And you shut your eyes to it
The world's on fire
And I'd like to put it out
But the blaze is bigger than me
Time just keeps on ticking
And you shut your eyes to it