Bad Idea

So say, come and spark up the forest Outlay the twilight, her glow Make way for the dark to set us under Our city by the ashes, overthrown Oh, it's a bad idea Back then, it was only but a sentence Shadow borne in the falling of an oak How quick we falsified the promise Take tomorrow out on loan Oh, it's a bad idea Oh, it's a bad idea Oh, it's a bad idea And it's all catching up to us now But we hand you the matches And we thumb-flick the light And we gather up the kindling For our first fire-fight Oh, poor California Our Lady of the Isles As the leaves, they do catch fire We watch on the roof as the flames Lick higher So, say, come and spark up the forest