Fire - AYO, Youssoupha

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

8 million citizens

Nobody’s really listening

Nobody’s really watching

8 million ignorant

8000 teachers we do many preachers

A thousand of leaders but nobody leads us

2 million beggars

4 million pleasers

We are the world, but they don’t believe us

Get to got no funds, get to ain’t no fun

Get to kid’s got guns, 'cause they got no one

Get to got no funds, get to ain’t no fun

Get to kid’s got guns, 'cause they got no one

No one, no one, no one

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Nobody’s listening to the sounds of the street

The clam, the violence, the silence, the heat

5 million set free out of 5 million desperate

1 million hurt, thousands arrested

The times are changing, why is this singing?

Everybody’s praying

Forgive us Father for all of our sins

The hatred, the weak, the innocents

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

There ain’t no sound of silence

Tell me who’s gonna help us now?

Nobody’s listening

8 million people rioting

Looking for shelter

But they got nowhere to go

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?

The city’s on fire

The town is burning down

But there’s no water