Fire Season (feat. Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo and the Shrine All-Star Band)

We made a home and it went up in flames But our bodies are something the fire did not claim On that day We were just making plans to stay And then our house burned down While everything changed Y'all, I am not the same Got loved ones who made it to an early grave I got loved ones who shouldn't but they carry the weight It's nobody's fault, but some want somebody to blame Usually the mirror is the place that they aim But I don't want to lose nobody else to shame Our house burned down, we lost it all in a day Bare feet in the street, we were all we could take That was more than enough, just that we made it out safe Without a house but a village we would find our way Never felt loved like we did the next day Sometimes you run and life is all you can take We're breathing in an era where the air isn't safe It was COVID, and the smoke had covered the whole state From tear gas to wildfires the worlds ablaze Change is so sudden, here nothings the same Years pass but the trauma remains Compounded into levels it gets hard to explain Some days you give thanks for the rain And work to build a home out the ashes again We made a home and it went up in flames But our bodies are something the fire did not claim On that day We were just making plans to stay And then our house burned down While everything changed We made a home and it went up in flames But our bodies are something the fire did not claim On that day We were just making plans to stay And then it all burned down While everything changed