2000 miles ought to be plenty of space
If I can't feel your flame, explain this lingering haze
Clouding my view, interfering when the sky should be blue
Ain't that like you, ain't that just like you
You're a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
All the way to my lungs, look at what you done
It's hard to breathe - even when you're nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it's never far enough
There goes the sun sinking with the heavy air
Birds, one by one, struggling to find somewhere
They can fly easy, their tiny hearts beating
So fast trying to be free – is that how you see me?
You're a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
All the way to my lungs, look at what you done
It's hard to breathe - even when you're nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it's never far enough
Like an earthquake shaking the ground of some town I've never heard of
Till I read about it in the morning paper
Then a few days later, there's waves crashing on my shore
What you gotta do that for? What you gotta do that for?
You're a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
All the way to my lungs, look at what you done
It's hard to breathe - even when you're nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it's never far enough
You're a wildfire
You're a wildfire