I do not blame the match that lit it
Forty years on now it's hard to even take a look around
So i'm sitting down
There's hardly anyone remaining
Each one has taken that cracked and smoking away from town
But I'm sitting down
And I'm asking you to stay
Though the fear of disappearing grows a little every day
The hollow earth, the acrid clouds, the future burned away
The stakes that smoulder underground
I'm sitting down
I'm sitting down
Ohhhhhhh
I had a dream that I'd been walking
It looked like Northern California
The sky a brilliant blue and everything so green
I finally felt free, I looked down my hands were smoking
I threw hot stones into the ocean
I carried them for miles through the mountains and cross plains
Kept hot all the while by the fire in my veins
So post a sign for kids six feet and under
You cannot ride here
You are not tall enough to reach the ground
But i'm sitting down
And I might cough each time the smoke surrounds me
But i will not choke here I will wait a thousand years until it burns out
I'm sitting down
So don't tell me that you care
When you set on your life on nothing 'cept pretending you've been spared
The horrible indiginity of thinking life was fair
You'll disappear without a sound
I'm sitting down
I'm sitting down
Ohhhhhhh