House On Fire Lyrics - Boomtown Rats

I heard Tarzan outside playing on the Jungle Blues 

I know 'cos I saw him shimmer in a Kenyan pool 

Coming on in the vines with his leopard-skin lioncloth cool 

Bony Watusi fingers 

Beating on the bark of a tree 

Now Tarzan and me, well, obviously we're like that 

Me and Tarzan, yeah we get on like a house on fire 

Look at cool Louise she's the one with the knick-knack eyes 

She's only 17 but she knows how to make boys fight 

Yeah she'll slit you with her eyes an' she'll slash you 

With her cut-back smile 

Ah she's as cruel as a pig but we love her like a house on fire 

Louise and me now obviously we're like that 

Yes me and Louise we'll make it like a house on fire 

I saw a raw white angel executing loop-de-loops in the sky 

Drawing lazy spirals with his slipstream smoke as he silently 

Passed us by 

But his halo got too heavy so he hung it down around his waist 

Doing halo hula-hoops, executing loop-de-loops takes a lot of 

Skill and bad taste 

Now the angel and me obviously we're like that 

Me and the devil we get it on like a house on fire 

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*written by Bob Geldof 

*taken from the album entitled "V-Deep"