You birth me a fire, long comin’

A world-eater between our lips

It throbs to the forest floor, hummin'

As heat singes off eyelashes

Fire shivering up through our catkins

As critters call out warning cries, you say

You didn’t mean for this to happen

Your nose crinkles up when you lie

Fire melts honeysuckle petals

Nectar sizzles out writhing mouths

Mosquitos come rising in embers

Why in this light do you, boy, look proud?

Gone will be our stick huts, our footprints

Our hand-dammed up streams

Gone will be any hint of you or of me

(Gone, Gone, Gone)

(Gone, Gone, Gone)

Fire stripping bark from the poplars

Groundweller’s homes collapse to graves

Like how I cling to you, ‘cause it’s familiar

Despite your breath’s heavy stench of doomsday

Gone will be our stick huts, our footprints

Our hand-dammed up streams

Gone will be any hint of you or of me

(Gone, Gone, Gone)

(Gone, Gone, Gone)

Fire ragin’ on past our treetops

Little bodies collapsing from smoke

And cedars, they blacken to cinders

Don’t recognize your face in this glow

(Oh) Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone

(Oh) Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone

(Oh) Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone

(Oh) Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize

Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone

Gone

Once set in motion, it cannot be stopped

Our death in a fanfare, hold my hand and watch

A lifetime we built, curled-to-ash in an instant

You cut my wound deep, how-dare-you try to kiss it

It’s an oil drum of a daughter, with a hot coal of a son

Skins blisterin’ together ‘til our rib bones touch

Blood thicker than pine-sap, love formed before souls

One little choke and we knew this love would swallow us whole

(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)