Lyrics:

There is fire on the mountain
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
and no one is a’ running.

I wake up in the morning
tell you what I see on my TV screen
I see the blood of an innocent child
and everybody's watching.

So there is fire on the mountain
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
and no one is a’ running.

Hey, Mister Lover-man
can I get a chance to talk to you?
'cause you are fooling with a dead man's corpse
and you don't know what you do.

So little Lucy turns sixteen
and like the movie she's been seeing
she has a lover in her daddy
she can't tell nobody till she makes the evening news.

So there is fire on the mountain
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
and no one is a’ running.

Oh, yes

One day the river will overflow
and there'll be nowhere for us to go
and we will run, run...
wishing we had put out the fire, oh no...

For there is fire on the mountain
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
and no one is a’ running. So yeah, yeah, yeah!

There is fire on the mountain, (fire in Africa)
and nobody seems to be on the run (everywhere, in the city)
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
and no-one is a’ running (no-one is a running)