Lyrics Babe I'm On Fire - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Babe I'm On Fire

Father says it, mother says it Sister says it, brother says it Uncle says it, Auntie says it Everyone at the party says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The horse says it, the pig says it The judge in his wig says it The fox and the rabbit
And the nun in her habit says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
My mate Bill Gates says it The President of the United States says it The slacker and the worker
The girl in her burqa says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The general with his tank says it The man at the bank says it The soldier with his rocket
And the mouse in my pocket says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The drug-addled wreck
With a needle in his neck says it The drunk says it, punk says it The brave Buddhist monk says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
Hit me up, baby, and knock me down
Drop what you’re doing and come around
We can hold hands till the sun goes down
Cause I know
That you
And I Can be Together
Cause I love you
The blind referee says it The unlucky amputee says it The giant killer bee
Landing on my knee says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The cop with his breathalyser
The paddy with his fertiliser
The man in the basement
That’s getting a taste for it says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The fucked-up Rastafarian says it The dribbling libertarian says it The sweet little Goth
With the ears of cloth says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe’I’m on fire
The cross-over country singer says it The hump-backed bell ringer says it The swinger, the flinger
The outraged right-winger says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The man going hiking says it The misunderstood Viking says it The man at the rodeo
And the lonely old Eskimo says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The mild little Christian says it The wild Sonny Liston says it The pimp and the gimp
And the guy with the limp says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The blind piano tuner says it The Las Vegas crooner says it The hooligan mooner
Holding a schooner says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The Chinese contortionist says it The backyard abortionist says it The poor Pakistani
With his lamb Bhirriani says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The hopeless defendant says it The toilet attendant says it The pornographer, the stenographer
The fashion photographer says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The college professor says it The vicious cross-dresser says it Grandma and Grandpa
In the back of the car says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The hack at the doorstep says it The midwife with her forceps says it The demented young lady
Who is roasting her baby
On the fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The athlete with his hernia says it Picasso with his Guernica says it My wife with her furniture
Everybody!
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The laughing hyena says it The homesick polish cleaner says it The man from the Klan
With a torch in his hand says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The Chinese herbologist says it The Christian apologist says it The dog and the frog
Sitting on a log says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The foxhunting toff says it The horrible moth says it The doomed homosexual
With the persistent cough says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The Papist with his soul says it The rapist on a roll says it Jack says it, Jill says it As they roll down the hill
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The clever circus flea says it The sailor on the sea says it The man from the Daily Mail
With his dead refugee says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The hymen-busting Zulu says it The proud kangaroo says it The koala, the echidna
And the platypus too says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The disgraced country vicar says it The crazed guitar picker says it The beatnik, the peacenik
The apparachick says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The deranged midnight stalker says it Garcia Lorca says it The hit man, Walt Whitman
And the haliototic talker says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The wine taster with his nose says it The fireman with his hose says it The pedestrian, the equestrian
The tap-dancer with his toes says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The beast in the beauty pageant
The pimply real estate agent
The beach-comber, the roamer
The girl in a coma says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The old rock’n’roller
With his two-seater stroller
And the fan in the van
With the abominable plan says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The menstruating Jewess says it The nervous stewardess says it The hijacker, the backpacker
The cunning safecracker says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The sports commentator says it The old alligator says it The tennis pro with his racquet
The loon in the straight jacket
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The butcher with his cleaver says it The mad basket weaver says it The jaded boxing writer
And the glass-jawed fighter says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The old town cryer says it The inveterate liar says it The pilchard, the bream
And the trout in the stream
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The war correspondent says it The enthused and the despondent says it The electrician, the mortician
And the man going fishin’says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The cattleman from Down Under says it The patriot with his plunder says it Watching a boat of full of refugees
Sinking into the sea
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The silicone junky says it The corporate flunky says it The Italian designer
With his rickshaw in China says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The trucker with his juggernaut says it The lost astronaut says it The share cropper, the bent copper
The compulsive shopper says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
The Viennese vampire says it The cowboy round his campfire says it The game show panellist
The Jungian analyst says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire
Warren says it, Blixa says it The lighting guy and mixer says it Mick says it, Marty says it Everyone at the party says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on Fire
The hairy arachnophobic says it The scary agoraphobic says it The mother, the brother
And the decomposing lover says
Babe, I’m on fire
Babe, I’m on fire