Capo 1  
  
-Verse 1-  
  
Bm                         D                 A  
     When the wind picked up the fire spread  
                      E                 Bm  
And the grapevines seemed left for dead  
                   D                             A  
And the Northern sky looked like the end of days  
                E/Ab 
The end of days  

Bm                    D                 A  
     The wake-up call to a rented room  
                  E                      Bm  
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom  
                D                      A  
To warn us it's only a matter of time  
 
              Bm        D        A        E  
Before we all burn  
              Bm        D        A        Fm  
Before we all burn  
              Bm        D        A        E  
Before we all burn  
              Bm        D        A (hold A)  
Before we all burn  
  
-Verse 2-  
  
Bm                   D                        A  
      We bought some wine and some paper cups  
                    E                            Bm  
Near your daughters school when we picked her up  
               D               A  
And drove to a cemetery on a hill  
       E/Ab 
On a hill  

Bm                         D                     A  
      And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray  
                    E                               Bm  
But she laughed and danced through the field of graves  
             D                    A  
And there I knew it would be alright  
          E  
That everything  

           Bm         D         A         E  
Would be alright  
           Bm         D         A         Fm  
Would be alright  
           Bm         D         A         E  
Would be alright  
           Bm         D         A (hold A)  
Would be alright  
  
-Bridge-  
 
C#                               D  
     And the news reports on the radio  
            A             Bm  
Said it was getting worse  
             D                  Fm  
As the ocean air fanned the flames  
C#  
     But I couldn't think  
   D                   A           Bm  
Of anywhere I would of rather been  
            D          E  
To watch it all burn away  

         Bm        D         A         E  
To burn away  
Bm        D          A         Fm  
Bm        D          A         E  
Bm        D          A (hold A)  

Bm        D          A         E  
Bm        D          A         Fm  
Bm        D          A         E  
Bm        D          A (hold A)  

-Outro-  
 
Bm                      D                   A  
      And the firemen worked in double shifts  
                 E                Bm  
With prayers for rain on their lips  
                     D                 A (fade)  
And they knew it was only a matter of time