Campus Fire

This track was born from a real headline: College campus protests across the US echoing the Vietnam era, with students organizing sit-ins, teach-ins, and marches. Muckraker's indie-folk production gives the story the weight of a front-page exclusive — journalism you can feel in your chest. Lines like "Eleven billion first week, Hormuz shipping lane is closed," anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — resolute — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] There's a fire on the campus green, tents pitched row by row, Berkeley students arm in arm like fifty years ago. Professor Hayes brought photographs from nineteen sixty-eight, Said history is rhyming and the hour's getting late. The dean sent out an email, said to clear the lawn by noon, But by noon there were a thousand singing underneath the moon. Guitar strings and megaphones and candles in the dirt, Every student wearing names of children on their shirt. A hundred seventy-five—they wrote them all by hand, Minab across the banners, make the nation understand. Stanford joined by Tuesday, then Columbia, then Brown, Every quad a village, every campus is a town. The reporters came with cameras, caught the footage going live, Young Americans refusing just to let the war survive. And the folk songs floating upward through the California air, Carry weight like only truth and sorrow dare. [chorus] Campus fire, campus fire, We are burning with a righteous desire. Campus fire, campus fire, Won't stop marching, take us higher. Campus fire, campus fire, Truth is louder than the liar. [verse 2] My roommate got her draft fear confirmed on CNN, They talking about reserves, she might not come home again. We sat there in the dorm room staring at the screen, Eighteen years old, wondering what does freedom even mean? The teach-in ran till midnight, standing room only packed, Veterans from Afghanistan laid out the brutal facts. Eleven billion first week, Hormuz shipping lane is closed, And every politician acts like nobody knows. But we know, yeah we know, we got the numbers and the names, We got the satellite footage and the eyewitness claims. So we walk out of the lecture hall, we walk into the rain, We join the line of thousands and we make it plain: This war was sold on fear and it's paid for with our debt, And we're the generation that refuses to forget. From Ann Arbor to Austin, from New Haven to Eugene, The campuses are burning with the brightest fire you've seen. [chorus] Campus fire, campus fire, We are burning with a righteous desire. Campus fire, campus fire, Won't stop marching, take us higher. Campus fire, campus fire, Truth is louder than the liar. [bridge] They told us we were too young, told us sit back down, But we read the Constitution, we know our solid ground. Peaceable assembly, redress of our grief, We hold these truths self-evident beyond belief. So let the tents stay standing, let the guitars play, This campus fire's burning and it won't go away. [chorus] Campus fire, campus fire, We are burning with a righteous desire. Campus fire, campus fire, Won't stop marching, take us higher. Campus fire, campus fire, Truth is louder than the liar. [outro] Campus fire... campus fire... From the steps of every building, from the hearts of every choir. Campus fire... campus fire... We won't stop until the last troops retire.