Come everybody to the video night Where the flames of anger burn green and white Where the sands are hot and the days are long And we slouch through the desert half a million strong Prophets waited for a great revelation While cameras turned to a ghost of a nation And a price was paid, and a lesson was learned While the smoke filled the sky and the hellfire burned. You can shoot your twin brother at the point of a gun Though he's already damned for the things that he's done You can take a big stick, draw a line in the sand, Take an eye for an eye and a hand for a hand A young boy's dying and his mother is screaming While up in the palace an old man is dreaming And the hellfire twists and the hellfire turns And whichever way you're lookin' the hellfire burns. Come on down Come on down Come on down to the party in the middle of town Come on down Come on down Come on down, down, down, down, down Smoke on the water, darkness at noon A snow-white sun and a black monsoon Write me a letter, send me a wire I'll feel much better if we stop the hellfire. Now we got oil in the oceans, and blood on our hands And madmen still ruling the desert sands And the great big wheel of history turns While the smoke fills the sky and the hellfire burns. Come on down Come on down Come on down to the party in the middle of town Come on down Come on down Come on down, down, down, down, down