I'm not afraid to die Cause all these colors will change 'Cause all these colors will change Bits and bits of cane Burning burning burning Bit by bit away They grow as people grow All the needy still need

I'm not afraid to die Cause all these colors will change 'Cause all these colors will change Bits and bits of cane Burning burning burning Bit by bit away They grow as people grow All the needy still need

And I think it's gonna be a long long time 'Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone She packed my bags last night pre-flight Zero

At my command, Let the blood ov the infants flood the streets ov Bethelehem! Consumed by tongues ov fire Burning like Phlegethon Holy gardens reduced to ash Extinguishing light ov hope Bringing the end ov the days Words ov my gospel scattered

Take all my love Take it how you want it So take it how you want it Burning on my bridges As you said my world's on fire Save me from your promises Take me with your constant shame Take it how you got me now After breaking down my heart

Constricting like a heart attack A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets Blood boiling with the burning heat Of caustic defeat, now there's no turning back I heard there was a plaace Where we're all one race Color, gender, age never could dictate I saw

Resurrect me from enlightened circles Crawling, I am undisguised Disconnect me from this human circus Searching for the undefined Every morning is a new beginning Burning in a sea of cries Lift em up to meet my execution Hiding from what I deny

Don't blame it on me So blame it on the night Blame it on the night Can't be sleepin' Keep on wakin' Is that the woman next to me? Guilt is burning Inside I'm hurting This ain't a feeling I can't keep

I bet this last time's the one time too many The rush of waiting is burning through my head Right after supper her brother shower's twice a week He kicks my ass so much, that filthy white inbred And when the day ends I'm sure she feels sorrow The lonely

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,