Fire On The Mountain Lyrics - The Arista Years - Grateful Dead

Long distance runner, what you standin' there for? 

Get up, get out, get out of the door 

Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor 

Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core. 

There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town 

Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down. 

Fire! fire on the mountain! 

Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat 

It takes all you got just to stay on the beat. 

You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat 

But you're here alone, there's no one to compete. 

If mercy's a business, i wish it for you 

More than just ashes when your dreams come true. 

Fire! fire on the mountain! 

Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for? 

Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door. 

The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor 

You gave all you had. why you want to give more? 

The more that you give, the more it will take 

To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake. 

Fire! fire on the mountain!