Flame

It’s a dark and lonely winter

you say “this hell’s never felt so cold”

yet there’s the faintest smell of cinders

and a truth yet to be told

and a sound surrounds your secret

something I’ve heard, but can’t yet see

like whispers in the twilight

the secret now revealed to me...

R: it’s a flame

burning just behind your eyes

I’m praying for rain

but nothing will put out these fires

that burn and blaze

wait

let’s not forsake all these years

if you’d just stay

there’s so much truth still to hear

and I’ll listen all night

to your hopes and every fear

I won’t say it’s alright

these things always end in tears

you’re fanning the flame

and everything is catching fire

the things that you hate

and everything that you desire

are one and the same

running to escape this pyre

and cover the shame

hiding just behind your eyes

through green and grey

we turn, turn with hearts on fire

we feel it inside

we’re steeling to die

to burn, burn what we conspire

we cast it aside

to keep us alive

R: there’s a flame

the things that you hate

the tears that you taste

we burn it away

there’s a flame.