"Forest Fire" is a song by British band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released in 1984 as the second single from their debut studio album Rattlesnakes.

"[3] Cole then wrote and demoed the song during a weekend in 1983, in his room at Glasgow Golf Club, where his parents worked and lived.

He wrote, "Against an organ motif that could have been lifted from Roxy Music's 'Psalm', this mini-epic swells and groans as the countrified funk guitar metamorphoses into giant slabs of metallic chaos by the closing bars."

[7] Dylan Jones of Record Mirror noted the "original, soulful and mindbending lyrics topping off a humdinger of a tune".

[9] Jerry Smith of Music Week praised it as a "slow, moody song" which starts with just his deep resonant vocal and builds with some atmospheric backing into a languid, echoing guitar solo".