Natalie Merchant - It’s A-Coming lyrics

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It’s a-coming: wild fires, dying lakes

Landslides, hurricanes

Apocalypse in store

Like nothing ever seen before

It’s a-coming: third-generation refugees

Street mob burning effigies

Revolution, civil war

Like nothing ever seen before

It’s a-coming: pale-horse rider come

Blistered by the morning sun

Tell about what he can see

Crystal ball of mercury

It’s a-coming, it’s gonna come

Jungle slashed and jungle burned

The monkeys and the painted birds

Climb the vines, the limbs and leaves

The lungs that let the whole world breathe.

It’s a-coming. All the ones that failed to thrive

Starved out and buried alive

Something evil, something free

Calamity

It’s gonna come: space Race, the old Cold War

Atom bomb was gonna settle the score.

You wait and see. It’s a long time coming

But it’s a-coming. It’s gonna come.

Third-generation refugees

Street mob burning effigies

Revolution, civil war

Like nothing ever seen before

Like nothing ever seen before