Then the Fire

Watch while your skin dissolves in my fingers
peace, paint and still — please, something else linger
Give me the gun!

One day you'll see through this mist
that you want more then the fire
will climb around him
and he will drown, drown, drown
he will drown

Taste what you will, I'll let my tongue wither
and waste all you've healed to let it dance shivers
all around my head
A tourniquet, sleeping in my bed
Sleeping in my bed!

I've conquered dreams of smashing diamonds on your face
dawn cakes the afterglow and something is erased
What have I done?

One day I'll see through this mist
that you want more than the fire
and I'm a liar!
And I can't take this away

I don't want to love you anymore
but I can't

Because we were but two lonely stars
passing glow, falling slow
She bears the two lonely hearts
sailing home
and sings, "I am not one for this, 
no I am not one for this"
and he sings, "I am not one for this,
no I am not one for this"

Then the Fire

Lilted light of June, 
let me go
tear the sediment down
Let me show
that I'm listening:

Howling sheets stand to crawl out
and bloom as feathers
folding, molting, preening
if I'm listening

We swam along a brittle spine
that warned us both to realign 
if flooding opens up the sea, 
will drying wings still dare to bleed?

For I have held me in your skin
threw out the part of you who'd let me in
Yes I have held me in your skin
where I have told myself:
That if taming you meant claiming you, 
it meant blaming you, meant saving you

You are set free

You'll sit like books I've never read
And I'll sit with all these words I've said

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