“When the Fires Come” is a song by Kero Kero Bonito, featured as the second track on their EP “Civilisation I”. The song was released as the EP’s lead single on September 9, 2019 with an accompanying music video.
[Verse 1]
When the hills are aglow with the light at the end of the day
And we usher our children into the shade
In the warm summer silence suspended aloft in the air
There a cricket sings alone
Ancient songs of home, where now
Deep in the forest that no one dares to see or know
A young spark smoulders
[Chorus]
All around the world they weep now they know it's true-true-true-true
The sun's returned to send us home to earth
Everybody takes their time making work to do, do, do, do
But no one will be left here to remember us
When the fires come
[Verse 2]
As a pillar of smoke reaches over to strangle the land
We desert all we have as fast as we can for the valleys
Then I see when I look right behind me
At the seam of the rocks and the trees
It roars, it's angry
[Chorus]
All around the world they weep now they know it's true
The sun's returned to send us home to earth
Everybody takes their time making work to do
But no one will be left here to remember us
When the–
All around the world they weep now they know it's true, true, true, true
The sun's returned to send us home to earth
Everybody takes their time making work to do, do, do, do
But no one will be left here to remember us
When the fires come
When the fires come
When the fires come
When the Fires Come was written by Gus Lobban & Jamie Bulled.
When the Fires Come was produced by Gus Lobban.
Kero Kero Bonito released When the Fires Come on Mon Sep 09 2019.