There’s a pain all around me and everybody hates that it started in my barn,
Wait let me say
No don’t, please no, haven’t you done enough
But what could I do, that you would have approved
Tell me please how this place that I’m put down into leaves me any way into a better future off my knees
And for all who bare the name that your so sure is where to blame
Like a sin, but without someone to save me

There’s a fire in the basement, though the flames are all put out
The embers are now burning, and spread around
Oh so many lives lost, there must be someone to blame
Cause reason for no reason, just can’t explain

Whatever truth is truth to you, till a story’s born
The tales we tell have weight to pull
I hear the whispers yelling, but my name doesn’t sound inside each door
The glares are drowning
A Disaster bastard, and its Catherine O’Learys turn, for now, poor gal
A Disaster bastard, and its Catherine O’Learys turn, for now, poor gal

I see the way you look at me, I feel a heavy weight, your pain, a train of hurting, steady hurling and insane, for good reason I’m sorry it’s the season, please ma’am, I’m freezin’
I have nothing but will be forever blamed for your misfortune yet my cows the one whose part, you say, did more than a fair portion
Sometimes it’s too late to make things right
There was a fire in the basement, but it burned all night

There’s a fire in the basement, though the flames are all put out
The embers are now burning, and spread around
Oh so many lives lost, there must be someone to blame
Cause reason for no reason, just can’t explain

Whatever truth is truth to you, till a story’s born
The tales we tell have weight to pull
I hear the whispers yelling, but my name doesn’t sound inside each door
The glares are drowning
A Disaster bastard, and its Catherine O’Learys turn, for now, poor gal
A Disaster bastard, and its Catherine O’Learys turn, for now, poor gal

Hearsay Hearsay until the paper said, a lantern kicked by a cow in a shed
The shame to face when a city of hurt, asks who, did you hear
I heard, I heard, I heard, I heard it was her

Hearsay Hearsay until the paper said, a lantern kicked by a cow in a shed
The shame to face when a city of hurt, asks who, did you hear, I heard it was her
Hearsay Hearsay until the paper said, a lantern kicked by a cow in a shed
The shame to face when a city of hurt, asks who, did you hear, I heard it was her
Hearsay Hearsay until the paper said, a lantern kicked by a cow in a shed
The shame to face when a city of hurt, asks who, did you hear, I heard it was her
I heard it was her, I heard it was her, I heard it was her

This fire in the basement, while we were all asleep
How much more of us will be found, bound on their knees, without reason, from the opposition, to appease, these superstitions, are hard to please
In 97 everyone could finally see that Lady O’Leary was guilt free
But too late had the proof, wound up at the truth
Another heart broken life for fake news

Fire in my basement, though the flames are all put out
The embers are now burning, and spread around
Oh so many lives lost, there must be someone to blame
Cause reason for no reason, just can’t explain

FIRE, FIRE, FIRE
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE
Fire in the basement, there was a fire
Fire in the basement, there was a fire
Fire in the basement, there was a fire
Fire in the basement, there was a fire
Fire in the basement