Elton John Lyrics

Album: 11-17-70

Burn Down The Mission Lyrics

You tell me there's an angel in your tree

 Did he say he'd come to call on me

 For things are getting desperate in our home

 Living in the parish of the restless folks I know

 

 Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

 Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

 Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

 It's time we put the flame torch to their keep

 

 Burn down the mission

 If we're gonna stay alive

 Watch the black smoke fly to heaven

 See the red flame light the sky

 

 Burn down the mission

 Burn it down to stay alive

 It's our only chance of living

 Take all you need to live inside

 

 Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

 My wife cried when they came to take me away

 But what more could I do just to keep her warm

 Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls