Fire Song

The truth comes obscured among countless fears And a voice full of teeth screaming "no" But it burns and screams like a roaring machine Until my head feels fit to bursting below They say "set your life ablaze", never knowing That a fire once started will bring everything down And will rage through the night, like a curse, like a blessing And no one can build a city out of ash And yet, I feel it still And yet, I feel its will Life pins you down, and lovers will be liars And the demons come disguised as friends The way everything ends, and desires go unrealised The smoke soon fills my head Long for a simple strike instead Forgive me Father for all I'm about to do I saw a devil in the darkness and I swear it looked like you No more can I run and hide I saw the truth from my shadow side And you're my fire eater boy But a taste can't prepare for the blaze that's been raging in my heart for years For years For years For years So when I lose it all in the fire Know I'm sorry you got caught in the blaze When I dropped that match in the gas, watched the chaos Of an overdue reckoning Forgive me Father for all I'm about to do I saw a devil in the darkness and I swear it looked like you No more can I run and hide I saw the truth from my shadow side And you're my fire eater boy But a taste can't prepare for the blaze that's been raging in my heart for years For years For years For years