Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jimmy Cliff
Performer
Bob Weir
Performer
Mickey Hart
Performer
Bill Kreutzmann
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mickey Hart
Songwriter
Robert Hunter
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Keith Wortman
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Long distance runner, what you standing there for?
Get up, get out, get out on the floor
You're playing cold music on the bathroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down
[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
[Instrumental]
Almost ablaze, still you can't feel the heat
Takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all got to 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 can come true, oh
[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
[Instrumental]
Long distance runner, what you running there for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door
Flame from your stage has now spread on the floor
You gave all you had, what you wanna give more for?
The more that you give, the more it will take
The thin line beyond which you really can't fake
[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
[Instrumental]
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain
Fire! Fire on the mountain (Oh)
Fire! Fire on the mountain
[Outro]
Fire!
Written by: Mickey Hart, Robert Hunter
